Re: Jules Verne and the ISS

Wasn't it Paul Ciszek who wrote:
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>In article <ikjnu35je4fkdmsfouf51gfhbh9u2djia9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Peter Ward  <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:41:11 -0400, jeffinputnam wrote:
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>>>John Dean wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>Do you know where that image might be found?

Perhaps it's this one

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02228

On the first of those pages you have to choose one of the higher 
resolution versions of the image in order to be able to see the blue dot 
unless you happen to know exactly where it is. The second one is just a 
highly processed blow up of a small region from the first one.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure