Yoyager 1 Photo

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34 years ago today, 13 FEB 1990, Voyager 1 took the longest distanced photograph of Earth on it's way out of the Solar System. Called 'The Pale Blue Dot', it was taken at a distance of 40.5 AU.
For those with trouble seeing, the dot is in the right most orange-ish spectrum band about 1/3 from the bottom

 

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For those interested, the wiki-link for Voyager 1

Voyager 1 - Wikipedia

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More Voyager 1 news.
45 years ago today, imaging technicians at NASA used images from Voyager 1 to prove that volcanism existed on Io, one of the moons of Jupiter. This was the first proof that other planets had an active lithosphere.
Link to the wiki article below.

Volcanism on Io - Wikipedia

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