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Friday, May 23, 2003

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
Carl Sagan


NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft took the first Earth portrait from Mars on May 8.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/find/mars_global_surveyor.html
In 1990, as NASA's unmanned Voyager 1 spacecraft reached the fringes of the solar system, it turned back to take a final look at Earth at the suggestion of astronomer Carl Sagan. The image, taken from 4 billion miles away, inspired the title of Sagan's 1994 book "A Pale Blue Dot."
Associated Press


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