This is an image I saw years ago, and it always stuck with me. It's been making the rounds online lately, and I wanted to post the original shot, along with the one with Carl Sagan's thoughts.
As I remember the story, Voyager 1 was leaving the solar system, and Sagan wanted to have it turned around for a parting shot of earth. Most of the people in charge of its operation were more interested in what lay ahead, but eventually they acquiesced. It took this picture:
There's a tiny dot in the right-most band of sunlight refracted into Voyager's lens, and it's earth. Our planet. The place where every human who has ever lived was born and died. Where all of our revolutions, spiritual movements, and scientific breakthroughs occurred. On that single pixel. Carl says it better:
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