Nasa 're-masters' classic 'Pale Blue Dot' image of Earth

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Link: Nasa 're-masters' classic 'Pale Blue Dot' image of Earth [bBC News]

 

 

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 about 6 billion km (4 billion miles) miles.

 

To mark the anniversary, the US space agency has now reprocessed this iconic view using modern techniques and software.

 

Nasa says the re-working has been respectful of the original.

 

It still shows Earth as that single, bright blue pixel in the vastness of space. And that pixel is still caught within a ray of sunlight. But the image now looks "cleaner"; the Earth is easier to pick out.

 

The Pale Blue Dot was part of a final sequence of frames taken by Voyager before its camera system was shut down to conserve power...