https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51491471
(Source: NASA / Above article)
It is unquestionably one of the greatest space images ever.
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 anniversary, the US space agency has now reprocessed this iconic view using modern techniques and software.
Nasa says the re-working has been respectful of the original.
It still shows Earth as that single, bright blue pixel in the vastness of space. And that pixel is still caught within a ray of sunlight. But the image now looks "cleaner"; the Earth is easier to pick out.
Yeah, I have to agree that this is an improvement: compared to the original, it does look cleaner, and the colours look more like what I'd intuitively associate with outer space (looks more like an abyss, really).
(Also, I rather like the Cassini version that appears in the full article!)
(Source: NASA / Above article)
It is unquestionably one of the greatest space images ever.
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 anniversary, the US space agency has now reprocessed this iconic view using modern techniques and software.
Nasa says the re-working has been respectful of the original.
It still shows Earth as that single, bright blue pixel in the vastness of space. And that pixel is still caught within a ray of sunlight. But the image now looks "cleaner"; the Earth is easier to pick out.
Yeah, I have to agree that this is an improvement: compared to the original, it does look cleaner, and the colours look more like what I'd intuitively associate with outer space (looks more like an abyss, really).
(Also, I rather like the Cassini version that appears in the full article!)
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