NASA's famous 'day the Earth smiled' photo captured rare glimpse of our planet
Nasa recently remembered a famous image of Earth as a mere pale blue dot in the distance. The famous photograph was taken in ...
New Study Says Earth Once Had Green Oceans
A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...
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The Pale Blue Dot At 35: The Making Of An Iconic Photo
Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with ...
Earth’s Oceans Were Green a Billion Years Ago. They Could Soon Be Green Again.
Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...
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Pale Blue Dot: The iconic Valentine's Day photo of Earth turns 35 today — and you're probably in it
On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...
Numbers, please! Last image of the earth from 6 billion kilometers away
"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...
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Stewart Avenue 'Sagan House' sold at cosmic price to scrap metal CEO. What was the cost?
Wilson sold the home to renowned scientist Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan in 1981. Druyan still resides in Ithaca’s Cayuga Heights neighborhood, north of the Stewart Avenue property ...
‘Consider again that dot’: How NASA's Voyager and Carl Sagan showed us Earth like never before
In his book, Sagan wrote: "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet.
You’ll be able to see Mercury, Saturn together in the night sky next week
Ahead of its dance with Saturn on Feb. 24, Mercury should be seen on Feb. 19 at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...
NASA’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’: The tiny Earth photo captured by Voyager 1 on Valentine’s Day turns 35
On Valentines Day in 1990, NASAs Voyager 1 captured the iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot image, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 ...