NASA updated the legendary Earth snapshot taken by Voyager-1 in 1990

The Pale Blue Dot image was taken by the Voyager-1 mission from a distance of 5.9 billion km fromThe photo was

It was made as part of a mission led by scientist Carl Sagan, at the same time the probe sent photos of images of other planets.

Original photo

NASA has decided to restore the photo in honor of her30th anniversary. The original photograph consisted of three taken by a probe using three color filters. The new photo has rebalanced filters, thanks to which the image became sharper, and the sun ray surrounding the Earth began to look white - just like the sunlight looks to us.

Updated version

Voyager-1 - an automatic interplanetary station,exploring the solar system since September 5, 1977. The main mission of the space program was to study Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager-1 was the first spacecraft to take detailed satellite images of these planets. At the end of the main mission, he embarked on an additional mission to study the remote regions of the solar system, including the Kuiper belt and the heliosphere boundary. Voyager-1 is the fastest spacecraft leaving the Solar System, as well as the most distant object from man made from Earth.

Photo of Earth, Saturn in the foreground.The image was taken by the Cassini mission in 2013.