Voyager 1 – and its sibling ... Dot image that shows the Earth being less than a pixel in size. Those images – taken on Valentine’s Day – were the last images taken by the Voyager ...

Of all the images sent back to us down the years, perhaps the most iconic — and humbling — is the one taken on Valentine's Day 1990 when Voyager 1, then 3.7 billion miles from the Sun ...

These iconic images of our planet now include ... An iconic image of our 'Pale blue dot,' taken 3.7 billion miles away The Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image from almost ...

Still transmitting data from more than 15 billion miles away, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is fully operations after months of ...

The images Voyager 1 sent back have been used in schoolbooks ... Mission team members have taken other measures to extend Voyager 1's life as well. For example, they turned off the spacecraft's ...

The photograph taken by Voyager 1 was part of a series of 60 images collectively referred to as the "Family Portrait of the Solar System," according to NASA. The sequence included the Sun and the ...

Today is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, one of humanity’s iconic twin ... nearly as memorable as the Earthrise photo taken by an Apollo 8 astronaut showing the planet as ...

The 46-year-old probe, which flew by Jupiter and Saturn in its youth and inspired earthlings with images of the ... of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion ...

When Voyager left Earth in 1977 ... a rotating filter wheel containing eight different filters. By combining images taken with different filters, the imaging scientists can create accurate ...

Voyager 1 briefly lost contact with NASA due to a radio issue. NASA/JPL-Caltech / ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS Voyager 1 soared past Jupiter and its moons in 1979, before passing the Saturn system ...

This antenna needed to be taken offline for upgrades, but there was a real risk that when it was turned back on, contact with Voyager 1 might be lost forever. The main concern revolved around the ...