“Look again at that dot. 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.”
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
“Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), as part of that day’s Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth’s apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan. The phrase “Pale Blue Dot” was coined by Sagan in his reflections on the photograph’s significance, documented in his 1994 book of the same name.”(Pale Blue Dot – Wikipedia)
For a pale blue dot, our earth is definitely beautiful and filled with moments that take your breath away. As I grow older, I have learnt to appreciate this pale blue dot and everything it has to offer. Spiritually speaking, the pale blue dot image is a reminder that we are nothing but a speck in this wide space and it is on us to cherish the time we have on this pale blue dot.
Peaks to Palaces 