What is the name of the photograph taken by Voyager 1 of the Earth against the vastness of space which lent itself to the title of a 1994 book by Carl Sagan?
"they think they are. The first edition of the book includes an extensive list of illustrations and photographs, much of it taken from public archives of information released by NASA. Pale Blue Dot (book) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space is a 1994 book by Carl Sagan. It is the sequel to ""Cosmos"" and was inspired by the famous ""Pale Blue Dot"" photograph, for which Sagan provides a poignant description. In this book, Sagan mixes philosophy about the human place in the universe with a description of the current knowledge about the Solar System. He"
"camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan. In September 1977, NASA launched ""Voyager 1"", a robotic spacecraft on a mission to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. After the encounter with the Jovian system in 1979 and the Saturnian system in 1980, the primary mission was declared complete in November of the same year. ""Voyager 1"" was the first space probe to provide detailed images of the two largest planets and their major moons. The spacecraft, still travelling at ,"
"acknowledged that such a picture would not have had much scientific value, as the Earth would appear too small for ""Voyager""s cameras to make out any detail, but it would be meaningful as a perspective on our place in the universe. Although many in NASA's Voyager program were supportive of the idea, there were concerns that taking a picture of Earth so close to the Sun risked damaging the spacecraft's imaging system irreparably. It was not until 1989 that Sagan's idea was put into practice, but then instrument calibrations delayed the operation further, and the personnel who devised and transmitted"
"Astronomer Carl Sagan, who was part of the Voyager imaging team, campaigned for many years to have the pictures taken. Six planets are visible in the mosaic, from left to right: Jupiter, Earth, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The Sun, also a point of light at this distance, is included in the image. Mercury was too close to the Sun to be seen, Mars could not be detected by the Voyager cameras due to light from the Sun behind it scattering in the optics, and Pluto (which in 1990 was still considered a planet) was not included because its small size"
"committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included. Here is an excerpt of President Carter's official statement placed on the Voyager spacecraft for its trip outside the Solar System, June 16, 1977: We cast this message into the cosmos ... Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky"
"Timothy Ferris, and Nick Sagan. Most of the images used on the record (reproduced in black and white), together with information about its compilation, can be found in the 1978 book ""Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record"" by Carl Sagan, F. D. Drake, Ann Druyan, Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg, and Linda Salzman. A CD-ROM version was issued by Warner New Media in 1992. Author Ann Druyan, who later married Carl Sagan, wrote about the Voyager Record in the epilogue of Sagan's final book ""Billions and Billions"". To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the record, Ozma Records launched a Kickstarter"
"attempt to uncover more about Johnson's life, first documenting him in his 1959 book ""The Country Blues"". In 1993, Charters corrected some factual inaccuracies in Johnson's biography in the liner notes to ""The Complete Blind Willie Johnson"". Other books related to Johnson include ""Shine a Light: My Year with Blind Willie Johnson"" and ""Revelation The Blind Willie Johnson Biography"". In 1977, Carl Sagan and a team of researchers were tasked with collecting a representation of Earth and the human experience for sending on the Voyager probe to other life forms in the universe. Among the 27 songs selected for the"
"Wanderers (2014 film) Wanderers is a 2014 Swedish science fiction short film created by the digital artist and animator Erik Wernquist. The film depicts actual locations in the Solar System being investigated by human explorers, aided by hypothetical-but-not-absurd potential space technology. Of the film's fifteen scenes, Wernquist created some using solely computer graphics, but most are based on actual photographs taken by robotic spacecraft or rovers combined with additional computer-generated elements. ""Wanderers"" is narrated by astronomer Carl Sagan, reading from his 1994 book ""Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space"". The film begins with a group"
"US space agency, had programmed the launch in that year of two space probes, Voyagers 1 and 2, which were designed to take and send back to earth images of the outer planets, then continue beyond the solar system after escaping the sun's gravitational pull to become the first man-made objects to leave it. NASA and the cosmologist Carl Sagan decided to create identical golden records to attach to each probe that were designed to tell the story of the Solar System, and mankind, should one of them ever come into contact with extraterritorial intelligent life. Engraved on each record"
"and the opening sequence from Earth through the Solar System and its galaxy and beyond for the ""Contact"" film. At Sagan's request, Lomberg designed the original sailing ship logo for the Planetary Society in 1981. The Smithsonian Institution commissioned Lomberg in the early 1990s to paint """"A Portrait of the Milky Way"""", a scientifically accurate artistic representation of the Milky Way galaxy as seen by a hypothetical observer from a vantage point 10 degrees above the galactic plane and 60,000 light years from the galactic center. The by painting, which was described in a peer reviewed academic paper in 1994"
"Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet is a children's literature book by science writer June A. English and astronaut Thomas David Jones that was published in 1996 by Scholastic. Jones was among the crew members of the Space Shuttle ""Endeavour"" during an eleven-day mission in space, which was launched in April 1994 to study the ecological well-being of Earth using specialized radar technology. The book, which is illustrated with radar images and picturesque photographs, chronicles the mission and Jones' experiences of it. ""Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet"" received a generally"
"Family Portrait (Voyager) The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by ""Voyager 1"" on February 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background indicating their relative positions. The picture is a mosaic of 60 individual frames. The frames used to compose the image were the last photographs taken by either Voyager spacecraft (which continued to relay other telemetry afterward). These frames were also the source of the famous ""Pale Blue Dot"" image of the Earth."
"is the most distant man-made object from Earth and the first one to leave the Solar System. Its mission has been extended and continues to this day, with the aim of investigating the boundaries of the Solar system, including the Kuiper belt, the heliosphere and interstellar space. Operating for as of today (), it receives routine commands and transmits data back to the Deep Space Network. ""Voyager 1"" was expected to work only through the Saturn encounter. When the spacecraft passed the planet in 1980, Sagan proposed the idea of the space probe taking one last picture of Earth. He"
"to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world. In a series of panoramic photographs, he recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam. In each location, he erected a life size panel of one of his animal portrait photographs, setting the panels within a world of urban development, factories, wasteland and quarries. A book of the work, ""Inherit the Dust"", was published in 2016. In the book, Brandt writes, ""We are living through the antithesis of genesis right now. It took billions of years to reach a place of such wondrous diversity, and then"
"The film, renamed in 2013 as ""Earthrise: The First Lunar Voyage"", centered on the events that led up to NASA's Apollo 8 mission. Anders is interviewed in a chapter of the book ""No More Worlds to Conquer"" by Chris Wright. The chapter is roughly evenly split between his life in Apollo and his later corporate life. The book's front cover is the famous ""Earthrise"" image taken by Anders. Anders appeared with fellow NASA astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell on the C-Span book review, Rocket Men. He confirmed the story that he had fallen asleep while awaiting the Apollo 8"
"Jules Verne's ""Journey to the Center of the Earth"". Whether picturing a research centre in the guise of a UFO set deep within the jungle, or barren glaciers and mountains diminished beneath the spectacle of northern lights, these images re-imagine the far corners of the earth as a virtual world, fusing primordial wilderness and space-age science. The series ""Blackout"" (2010) was inspired by the infamous power failures in 1960s New York, an event which threw millions of people into darkness and prompted a panicky fear of nuclear attack. Holdsworth's enormous prints are images of mountains and glaciers in Iceland, made"
"intelligences and their views of the Earth, as well as communication with mankind. He also discusses the popularity of UFO sightings and attempts mathematically to portray the probability of such events. Sagan also discusses his view of astrology as a pseudoscience. The Cosmic Connection The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective is a book by Carl Sagan, produced by Jerome Agel. It was originally published in 1973; an expanded edition with contributions from Freeman Dyson, David Morrison, and Ann Druyan was published in 2000 under the title ""Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection"". The book contains artwork by Jon Lomberg and other artists."
"Billions and Billions Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium is a 1997 book by the American astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan. The last book written by Sagan before his death in 1996, it was published by Random House. The book is a collection of essays Sagan wrote covering diverse topics such as global warming, the population explosion, extraterrestrial life, morality, and the abortion debate. The last chapter is an account of his struggle with myelodysplasia, the disease which finally took his life in December 1996. Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, wrote the"
"to the study of the Earth and the atmosphere around it. The two primary payloads were the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR), and Measurement of Air Pollution from Space (MAPS). The crew completed over 400 precise maneuvers (a Shuttle record) to properly point the radar, imaged over 400 selected sites with approximately 14,000 photographs (a Shuttle record) and recorded enough data to fill 26,000 encyclopedias. Areas of investigation included ecology, oceanography, geology, and hydrology. Launching on April 9, 1994, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Endeavour and her crew of six completed 183 orbits of the"
"Books"" by Kathryn Mitchell Pierce. Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet is a children's literature book by science writer June A. English and astronaut Thomas David Jones that was published in 1996 by Scholastic. Jones was among the crew members of the Space Shuttle ""Endeavour"" during an eleven-day mission in space, which was launched in April 1994 to study the ecological well-being of Earth using specialized radar technology. The book, which is illustrated with radar images and picturesque photographs, chronicles the mission and Jones' experiences of it. ""Mission: Earth, Voyage to the"
"behavior of the eccentric ringlets and the ""spokes"" discovered by Voyager within the rings of Saturn; to elucidate the mechanism by which the outer Uranian rings were being shepherded by the Voyager-discovered moons Cordelia and Ophelia; and to provide an explanation for the shepherding of the rings arcs of Neptune by the moon Galatea, also discovered by Voyager. She was a co-originator of the idea to take a 'portrait of the planets' with the ""Voyager 1"" spacecraft, and participated in the planning, design, and execution of those images in 1990, including the famous ""Pale Blue Dot"" image of Earth. In"
"the ecliptic, ending its planetary science mission. Had ""Voyager 1"" failed or been unable to observe Titan, ""Voyager 2""'s trajectory would have been altered to incorporate the Titan flyby, precluding any visit to Uranus and Neptune. The trajectory ""Voyager 1"" was launched into would not have allowed it to continue on to Uranus and Neptune, but could have been altered to avoid a Titan flyby and travel from Saturn to Pluto, arriving in 1986. On February 14, 1990, ""Voyager 1"" took the first ever ""family portrait"" of the Solar System as seen from outside, which includes the image of planet"
"hypothetical prospect, known as terraforming, was first proposed by Carl Sagan in 1961, as a final section of his classic article in the journal ""Science"" discussing the atmosphere and greenhouse effect of Venus. Sagan proposed injecting photosynthetic bacteria into the Venus atmosphere, which would convert the carbon dioxide into reduced carbon in organic form, thus reducing the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the knowledge of Venus' atmosphere was still inexact in 1961, when Sagan made his original proposal for terraforming. Thirty-three years after his original proposal, in his 1994 book ""Pale Blue Dot"", Sagan conceded his original proposal for"
"The Cosmic Connection The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective is a book by Carl Sagan, produced by Jerome Agel. It was originally published in 1973; an expanded edition with contributions from Freeman Dyson, David Morrison, and Ann Druyan was published in 2000 under the title ""Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection"". The book contains artwork by Jon Lomberg and other artists. Sagan covers several topics, and focuses mainly on the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, the likelihood of the existence of more advanced civilizations, and their distribution in the local galaxy, and in the universe. He describes the hypothetical opinions of more advanced"
"pictures from the radar capture. He describes his observations while looking at the Earth from space, for example he says, ""Maybe more than any other sight from space, lightning gives the decided impression that the Earth is alive, a living organism"". He described aurora phenomena as, ""shimmering fingers of green light reaching up from the dark ocean, an arc of light around the South Magnetic Pole"". June English provides contextual information about Jones' mission. ""Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet"" received a positive review from journalist Rebecca O'Connell, who wrote in the ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"", ""The authors convey the awe"
"of Earth taken from space by Apollo 8 Astronaut William Anders. Schaeffer became one of many young people rejecting the established values of the 1950s in favor of the communal living practices associated with the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The ""Whole Earth Catalog"", which promoted access to tools, became the bible of this movement and the inspiration for Schaeffer's own catalog, the Real Goods catalog, which sold products useful for independent life in the commune. By the 1980s the Real Goods catalog had become the successor to the ""Whole Earth Catalog"". In 1971, Schaeffer graduated from the"
"of approximately 40.11 AU from Earth and approximately 32° above the ecliptic plane. Of the two Voyager spacecraft, ""Voyager 1"" was chosen to create the mosaic because its trajectory had taken it above the plane of the Solar System, and unlike ""Voyager 2"", was in a position to view Jupiter free of light disturbances by the Sun's glare. In 2013, a reverse image was taken of ""Voyager 1"", using radio telescopes. ""Voyager 1"" cannot be seen in visible light, but its radio signal is very bright compared to most natural things studied by radio telescopes. Family Portrait (Voyager) The Family"
"aerial photographs of the Earth's surface and is divided into 4 chapters ""Aqua, Green, Desert and Barren"". The photographs are accompanied by text and are taken all around the world from Alaska to the Bahamas and Iceland, and from continental Europe to North America and New Zealand. Bernhard Edmaier Bernhard Edmaier is a German geologist, photographer and author of geoscientific books. He is the main author of the illustrated book ""Earthsong"" (2005), in which he describes the Earth and its morphology from a new point of view based on pattern recognition and photographic art perspectives. The Earth's phenomena are described"
"IMAGE IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is a NASA Medium Explorers mission that studied the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind. It was believed lost but as of August 2018 might be recoverable. It was launched 25 March 2000 by a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg AFB on a two-year mission. Almost six years later, it unexpectedly ceased operations in December 2005 during its extended mission and was declared lost. The spacecraft was part of NASA's Sun-Earth Connections Program, and during its run had over 400 research articles published in peer-reviewed journals using"
"on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site. In addition to over 50 published articles in numerous popular astronomical magazines and on-line blogs, GaBany published his first book titled Breakthrough-100 Astronomical Images that Changed the World with co-author Robert Gendler in the fall of 2015. The book explores the history of astrophotography through the lens of 100 ground breaking images that altered humanity’s perception of its place in the universe. In addition to his private pursuit of astronomy and astro-photography, GaBany has consulted businesses in the travel sector and managed corporate travel services provided by the American Automobile"
"Peru on a Fulbright Scholarship and published many of the resulting photographs in her 1991 book ""Planet Peru: An Aerial Journey Through a Timeless Land"". In Egypt in 1993-94 she obtained unusual permission to fly over the Valley of the Kings and along the Nile. Leaning out of an old Russian military helicopter, she photographed dozens of ancient sites. The result was a unique collection of aerial photographs in her 1996 book ""Egypt: Antiquities from Above"". Closer to home Bridges photographed ancient and contemporary sites across the United States, from Pre-Columbian mounds in the Midwest and geoglyphs in California, to"
"by John Herschel's actinometer. He also travels to Norway to observe and explain the defensive role of the Earth's magnetosphere against the sun's solar wind and its role in forming the Aurora Borealis. He also relates the Voyager missions and their continuing exploration of the massive reach of the sun's gravitational forces on objects in the farthest regions of the solar system. Finally, in the clear skies of the Atacama Desert, at the Paranal Observatory he is able to observe, with the naked eye, the myriad of stars on the Milky Way and relates the meaning of their diverse colours"
"launch and adds perspective on how the mission will help scientists understand Earth, including its atmosphere, geology, ecologyand future"". Nita Thurman wrote for ""The Dallas Morning News"", """"Mission: Earth, A Journey to the Home Planet"" has dozens of color photos taken inside the shuttle and through its windows. The astronaut's descriptions are vivid."" ""Publishers Weekly"" wrote favorably of the book, saying, ""Astronaut Jones's enthusiasm for his work is contagious; it shines through the text, making for a roundly enjoyable and informative read"". ""Publishers Weekly"" recommended the book and said it is, ""[w]ell-conceived and thoughtfully executed, this book deserves a wide"