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We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
Mon, April 12, 2010 
David Fu created this short film centered around The Pale Blue Dot. The image of Earth taken by Voyager I on February 14, 1990 from 4 billion miles away. The film was made using scenes from 64 films and stock footage from Carl Sagan's series Cosmos.
The spacecraft was a long way from home.
I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point of light, a lonely pixel hardly distinguishable from the other points of light Voyager would see: nearby planets, far off suns. But precisely because of the obscurity of our world thus revealed, such a picture might be worth having.
It had been well understood by the scientists and philosophers of classical antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in a vast, encompassing cosmos—but no one had ever seen it as such. Here was our first chance, and perhaps also our last for decades to come.
Nice work David. Now, listen to what Carl has to tell us.
via Gizmodo