pale blue dot

English

Etymology

Referring to the Earth's appearance from space; Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers and named by by American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author Carl Sagan.

Proper noun

the pale blue dot

  1. The planet Earth.

See also

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