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This week marks the 20th anniversary of a photograph. It's a very dramatic photo, even though, at first glance, it's mostly dark and seems to show nothing at all.But if you look closely, you can see a tiny speck of light. That speck is the Earth, seen from very, very, very far away.Two decades ago, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck became the first person to ever see that speck, sitting in front of a computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California. "I was all alone, actually, that afternoon, in my office," she recalls.Her office was dark. The window shades were drawn. She was searching through a database of images sent home by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which at the time was nearly 4 billion miles away. "I knew the data was coming back," she says, "and I wanted to see how it had turned out."Finally, she found it.
It looks like carbon warming and pollution are spreading out from Earth and contaminating the universe.
Voyager is nearly 4 billion miles away?wow
...and was still working just fine at the time.
I wonder what the computing power on board is compared to what we are surfing the web with.
A pretty insignificant speck in the vastness of space.
Reports are the malfunctioning Voyager 2 is sending back an audio file. weird.