The "pale blue dot" of Earth viewed from the deep solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech. Perhaps the most poignant picture of Earth is also the smallest view of Earth.

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image is just as awe-inspiring today.

It wasn't until 1946 that humans first saw what the Earth looked like from space. These iconic images of our planet now include "Blue Marble," "Pale Blue Dot," and "Earthrise." The farthest is ...

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990.

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun. NASA/JPL-CALTECH.

From space, Earth is the pale blue dot, where water covers almost three quarters of the planet's surface - it defines our ...

NASA updated the famous photo Pale Blue Dot taken by the Voyager 1 mission 30 years ago using modern technology, and it reminds us how big the universe is.

When searching for Earth-like worlds around other stars, instead of looking for the "pale blue dot" described by Carl Sagan, new research suggests that a hunt for dry, cold "pale yellow dots ...