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Vintage NASA: Voyager’s 1990 ‘Family Portrait’ News Conference
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On June 6, 1990, following the conclusion of Voyager’s planetary explorations, mission representatives held a news conference at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to summarize key findings and answer questions from the media.
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On June 6, 1990, following the conclusion of Voyager’s planetary explorations, mission representatives held a news conference at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to summarize key findings and answer questions from the media.
In the briefing, Voyager’s longtime project scientist Ed Stone, along with renowned science communicator Carl Sagan, also revealed the mission’s “Solar System Family Portrait,” a mosaic comprising images of six of the solar system’s eight planets. Carl Sagan was a member of the Voyager imaging team and instrumental in capturing these images and bringing them to the public.
These groundbreaking images, including the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” image of Earth, were taken by Voyager 1 on Feb. 14, 1990, when the spacecraft was beyond the orbit of Neptune — about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun.
Nearly a half-century after their 1977 launches, Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are still exploring, only now in interstellar space.
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47846