The Voyager 1 probe has made it on Valentine’s day 1990, an image of the earth from Neptune in the solar system, as a pale blue dot was to be seen. At the request of the late astronomer Carl Sagan turned the Voyager is a bit, and made the shot. In a conversation with NU.nl call Sagans widow, Ann Druyan, the earth as a small dot, “our reality is that we need to embrace it”.

Sagan used this photo to help our planet in a new perspective. “That dot is a small stage in a cosmic theater”, wrote a letter to the astronomer. According to him, the image of the only home that mankind has ever known,” shows that the man has to be proud of themselves, and that we should have to deal with it.

On the Voyager probe, I also have a golden record with a collection of earth sounds and. Druyan stated, the content of which was designed to serve as a message for extraterrestrial life. “NASA thought that we were crazy.”

now, Druyan and Sagan had wanted the whole of the earth’s plates are alive. So, there were not only many languages, but it is also the song of the whales. And the music had to be more than just American pop music. “NASA seemed to be offended that we are the Japanese music had been used in place of, for example, the music of Frank Sinatra.”

The golden record on the side of Voyager 1. (Photo: NASA)

the Picture was taken from the back of planet Neptune < / p> Sagan was awarded in 1981, and the very idea of the earth as Voyager 1 is to shoot. In 1990, it was provided that: – the probe was 6 billion kilometres from earth, and passed by Neptune, the last planet in the solar system.

For a moment, and turned to the probe, and shot the photos. Half an hour later, switched to NASA with the cameras of the Voyager permanently to free up disk space and battery consumption.

The earth is the small dot, defined by the Voyager at 6 billion kilometers away. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech).

Druyan: “Voyager has been longer than that, such as the Pale Blue Dot” < / p> Sagan was best known for his science series Cosmos. In the meantime, a new series is in the works as well. It: Possible Worlds, comes out in march. NU.nl spoke to the seventy years of Druyan about this series is that she writes and produces. We would also like her to work with NASA on the case. “Voyager has been longer than that, such as the Pale Blue Dot,” she said.

as A member of the national space agency had Druyan will ever know about the Voyager mission and is the most popular NASA projects and the public at large. “That I will, to this” Noah’s ark of human culture, able to work, and gives me still goose bumps all over.”

now That they are in a high position, in such a huge project that took Druyan is very special. It is peter Sagan with great pleasure.”As a woman, if, at the time, her sentences do not even have to finish it. Is that a Carl to me as an equal, a treated, so it’s great.”

you can take a Look at what was going on in the golden records of Voyager has been pressed.