An interactive reading of Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”. Keyboard: space or K plays and pauses, M mutes, C opens the credits.

Pale Blue Dot

Voyager 1 · 14 Feb 1990

Distance from the Sun

~6 billion km

~3.7 billion miles

T+ 00:00 / 03:31

Pale Blue Dot

Voyager 1 · 14 Feb 1990

Select language

English is what Sagan speaks, and it stays on screen throughout. Your language sits beneath it during the reading, and carries everything after it.

Credits & attribution

Narration

"Pale Blue Dot" (1994)
from Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan · © 1994 Carl Sagan · © 2006 Democritus Properties, LLC

Used in the context of a non-commercial educational portfolio work. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.

planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot
Music

"Aurora"

Scott Buckley · CC BY 4.0

scottbuckley.com.au/library/aurora
Closing audio

"Warbling 28"

Bret Bernhoft · Pixabay Content License

Sound Effect by Bret Bernhoft from Pixabay

pixabay.com/sound-effects/warbling-28-456902
Earth textures

Solar Textures — day map, night lights, clouds, specular map and normal map

Solar System Scope (INOVE) · CC BY 4.0

solarsystemscope.com/textures
Reference image

Pale Blue Dot Revisited — PIA23645
The Voyager 1 frame of 14 February 1990, reprocessed by NASA in 2020. The original photograph was captured from roughly 6 billion kilometres from the Sun.

NASA/JPL-Caltech · Used in accordance with NASA/JPL media usage guidelines

science.nasa.gov/photojournal/pale-blue-dot-revisited
Archive images

Solar System Family Portrait — PIA00451
Voyager in Space — Artist's Concept, PIA17049
Voyager Golden Record — Front
Voyager Golden Record — Cover

NASA/JPL-Caltech · Used in accordance with NASA/JPL media usage guidelines

science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager

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