pale blue dot- do we need another one?

irishgeo

do we need another pale blue dot picture. I am surprised after all these years and all the spacecraft that have gone out to distant planets that we have not taken another one?


i think it would be interesting to see it done again.

Hopefully it will be but with NASA funding being cut i cant see it happening anytime soon.

I'm not sure it needs to be done again, to be honest.

There's something magical about not just the picture itself--the Earth suspended in a sunbeam--but about Sagan's speech which often accompanies it.

It's already a masterpiece, and any image which tried to replicate it--even if only replicated in its idea--would be nothing compared to Pale Blue Dot.

Beeker

gvn wrote: »

I'm not sure it needs to be done again, to be honest.

There's something magical about not just the picture itself--the Earth suspended in a sunbeam--but about Sagan's speech which often accompanies it.

It's already a masterpiece, and any image which tried to replicate it--even if only replicated in its idea--would be nothing compared to Pale Blue Dot.

I agree it was a classic image and Sagans words are beautiful and inspirational. We have no other spacecraft far enough away to take a shot like that at this time. New Horizons on its way to Pluto might be able to do it after its main mission is complete but I don't see it happening unless there is a scientific benefit to it.

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam ~ Carl Sagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

Ellis Dee

As this article indicates, we may be getting closer to discovering other "pale blue dots" (Earth-like planets) around stars other than the Sun. A new technique promises to overcome the difficulty of detecting planets against the background of the glare from their parent stars.

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1210/

namloc1980

Cassini took its own "pale blue dot" photo from Saturn orbit a few years ago:



Spirit took this one of Earth from the surface of Mars a few years ago:

timesnap

Ellis Dee wrote: »

As this article indicates, we may be getting closer to discovering other "pale blue dots" (Earth-like planets) around stars other than the Sun. A new technique promises to overcome the difficulty of detecting planets against the background of the glare from their parent stars.

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1210/

I wonder how we will cope when we find out that there are other forms of life throughout the cosmos?,i have no doubt that there is.
Carl Sagan i wonder sometimes did he create humanism.