Unit 6 Vocabulary
Pale. Blue. Dot. It's a picture of your home.
Can you see your home below?
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If the Voyager I Space probe was on Snapchat, it's the shot it would have posted. Voyager I, NASA's camera mounted hunk of metal hurling through space took the photo just before exiting our solar system. The photo was taken from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from Earth. Karl Sagan, a famous astronomer and author asked NASA to control the space probe to turn around and take the photo before leaving our system. Hear his famous reflection of the picture in this video:
This kind of thing gives us perspective. In this unit we will explore not just WHERE we are in space, but also WHEN we are in time and how Earth's forces have changed our planet over time.
This kind of thing gives us perspective. In this unit we will explore not just WHERE we are in space, but also WHEN we are in time and how Earth's forces have changed our planet over time.
