Re: Jules Verne and the ISS

Paul Ciszek <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Peter Ward  <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:41:11 -0400, jeffinputnam wrote:
> >>John Dean wrote:
> >>> 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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