This year is the 30 th anniversary of the Pale Blue Dot, the renowned photo of our planet taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a great distance. Featuring Earth as a tiny dot against the vast ...

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 ...