Artifact Title: Pale Blue Dot

Medium: Image

Creator: Voyager I

Year: 1990

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, “Solar System Exploration: Our Galactic Neighborhood”

TERA Curator: Alejandro Escalante

Pale Blue Dot

In speaking of this image of earth taken by Voyager One on February 14 1990, Carl Sagan said “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”.