The Voyager 1 team sensed at the time that the "Pale Blue Dot," as the photo has come to be known, would be an important social document, said planetary scientist Candy Hansen, who served as the ...

“Pale Blue Dot” was taken by the Voyager mission 30 years ago, on February 14, 1990, but the updated version used modern-day image-processing software to show the Earth in the context of its ...