35 Years On: Pale Blue Dot and Our Place in the Universe

At 4:48 GMT on February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 snapped an image of our collective home. It wasn’t until a couple months later that the image data finally made its way back to the space center to show what had been captured: the Earth looking like a tiny speck of dust suspended in a sunbeam—a photo that would go on to be known as the Pale Blue Dot.