25 September 2017
Boldly going in search of another pale blue dot
... the two have signed a Space Act Agreement to cooperate on the mission known as “Project Blue.” Its aim is to locate and capture the first “pale blue dot” image of another Earth in the closest star system to us. The Institute have already...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... consider our planetary home in its entirety. However impressive the ‘Blue Marble’ - photographed by the Apollo astronauts in orbit around the Moon - might be, or the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ imaged by Voyager 1 six billion kilometres from Earth, these images...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
...a strong connection. Iconic images like Earthrise or the Pale Blue Dot helped us realise the fragility of this tiny marble in...understood. Astronaut Alexander Gerst takes a selfie with the pale blue dot of Earth in the background. He named his mission...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
..., Voyager 1 pivoted to take a ‘portrait’ of Earth that helped relativize the planet as part of a larger cosmos. The famous ‘pale blue dot’ photo from almost four billion miles away underscores Earth’s smallness, and perhaps its specialness. The...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
...So, as Carl Sagan warned in the ecocidal 1990s, the “pale blue dot” we were born on – with its oxygen, nitrogen, liquid... of terrestrial vegetation, animal diversity and human arts on this blue-green one. So, we have an obligation to spread our ...
