(The very last photos Voyager 1 took, however, were of the sun, Hansen said.) All of the image data didn't come down to Earth until May 1, 1990, NASA officials wrote in a Pale Blue Dot explainer.

From full-globe Blue Marble images stitched together from satellite imagery to the humbling Pale Blue Dot Earth picture made from deep space, our world has been revealed in all its cosmic splendor.

But the space agency's engineers often direct their machines to peer back at the vivid blue dot ... sunlit Earth. It's a shot from 1 million miles away. Perhaps the most poignant picture of ...

Known as the "Pale Blue Dot" photo, the original image showed Earth as a tiny speck within ... in a total of 60 images that NASA nicknamed "The Family Portrait of the Solar System." ...

New version: Voyager pictured Earth as "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam" It is unquestionably one of the greatest space images ever. The "Pale Blue Dot" picture of Planet Earth was acquired ...

On Valentine's Day 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped what would become one of the most iconic images ever taken: a view of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away.

It was back in 1990 that the Voyager 1 probe took the now famous 'Pale Blue Dot' image of Earth from 6 billion kilometres away, as the spacecraft glanced backward while hurtling towards the outer edge ...

It is unquestionably one of the greatest space images ever. The "Pale Blue Dot" picture of Planet Earth was acquired by the Voyager 1 probe exactly 30 years ago on Friday - from a distance of ...