35 Years On: Pale Blue Dot and Our Place in the Universe

At 4:48 GMT on February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 snapped a series of photos, the data of which made it back to the space center a couple months later to show what had been captured. There was a frame that stood out in particular of the Earth looking like a tiny speck of dust suspended in a sunbeam — a photo that would go on to be known as the Pale Blue Dot.