Re: Jules Verne and the ISS

In article <ikjnu35je4fkdmsfouf51gfhbh9u2djia9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Peter Ward  <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:41:11 -0400, jeffinputnam wrote:
>
>>John Dean wrote:
>>
>>> There's another good site for predictions of satellite activity at any
given 
>>> location:
>>> 
>>> http://www.heavens-above.com/
>>
>>The site says that Voyager's 1 and 2 are still functioning. Are they 
>>sending us any information?
>
>A while ago they turned one of those so that it could take a
>photograph of the Solar System from way, way out.  I saw it on a TV
>programme at home, so it must have been before 1998.  That photo
>includes the third rock from the Sun, the Earth.  It's a tiny,
>blue-green pixel.  That's all.  In fact it was asserted that the
>Earth.only occupied about three-quarters of that pixel.
>
>I found that very moving, the clear demonstration of this planet's
>insignificance.  I could compare its effect to that of the Total
>Perspective Vortex.
>
>After all, the Voyager in question hadn't even passed the heliopause.

Do you know where that image might be found?


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