PIA02228: Solar System Portrait - Earth

Target Name: Earth Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Voyager Spacecraft: Voyager 1 Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle Product Size: 200 samples x 200 lines Produced By: JPL Producer ID: P36085 Primary Data Set: Voyager EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA02228.tif (117.8 kB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA02228.jpg (4.977 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image: This image of the Earth is one of 60 frames taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 4 billion miles and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. This image the Earth is a mere point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Our planet was caught in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. Image Credit: NASA/JPL Image Addition Date: 1999-12-10