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‘That’s here. That’s home. That’s us’: It’s 30 years since Voyager 1 looked back and squinted at a 'Pale Blue Dot’

The Reg talks to Carolyn Porco, Garry Hunt, Alan Stern about the picture that almost wasn’t

Special report  Thirty years ago, the Voyager Project celebrated 14 February not with a card, but with a family portrait of the Solar System, which would give rise to the celebrated “Pale Blue Dot” concept. The Register spoke to the scientists involved, as well as those who might snap a future image.…