Sunday, November 18, 2012

Earth photo from 11 billion miles

This tiny dot, amid a band of coloured rays, is our planet, as seen from staggering distance of 11,100,000,000 miles away, and pictured in 1990.


The picture was taken by Voyager-1. This should give us some idea how small we are in the universe.

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4 comments:

  1. And yet, sadly, we carry on as if we are top dog.

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  2. Lorne, thank you.

    That is exactly was the purpose of this post.

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  3. The Total Perspective Vortex strikes again!

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  4. Elliott Taylor, I am not sure what you mean.

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