Pale Blue Dot 
hey friends,most amazing pic i have ever seen in my life..,this pic is perhaps the rarest pic ever n definately only one of its kind... it makes to think us deeply, we think about Divine Supreme power,Mankind,n just think after seeing this image.. that how Pity that we Humans fight from each other n think that we are just below(some humans do..) the GOD... i wanted to say many things,but its upto u now... wht u feel after seeing this image...
One of the most famous images ever taken from space could be considered a lousy photograph even by the least skilled amateur who wrestles with today's unthinkably complicated cameras.
That is because, if it weren't a picture of our planet. From more than 4 billion miles away.
"Scientifically, it didn't teach us a single thing," Van der Woude says of the Pale Blue Dot, snapped by Voyager 1 in 1991. "But historically, it's priceless."
Reflections of sunlight inside Voyager's camera created the gold-colored beams that frame the planet, which is so faint it is barely visible. A mere pixel of information on one of the world's early digital images.
"It was the very first time that our species was that far away from home and could turn around and look back at our own neighborhood," Van der Woude said.
In his 1994 book titled Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan employed the photograph as a metaphor for the insignificance of our world in comparison to the cosmos. Sagan died in 1996. But Voyager 1, on which he advised NASA, lives on. It is currently on the verge of leaving our solar system(already leave it..) and becoming the first human object to enter interstellar space.
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light."
-- Carl Sagan
From "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space," Random House-1994.
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