It's a mission with an unusual history.Īl Gore first proposed the idea for DSCOVR back in 1998, when he was vice president. The images will come courtesy of a spacecraft called Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). The three astronauts aboard Apollo 8 were the first to get that view if all goes well, later this year everyone will be able to get it on a daily basis over the Internet. There's something majestic, even awe-inspiring about the sight of planet Earth as a blue disc, hanging in the vastness of space. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there – on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.NASA says this 'blue marble' image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. 'We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot.

Here's part of Sagan's speech about the image: This photo of Earth - the ' pale blue dot' - is just one frame of a ' solar system portrait' that Voyager 1 took, roughly 4 billion miles away from home. It often indicates a user profile.Ī photo of Earth from 4 billion miles away, also known as the 'Pale Blue Dot' image. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

View of earth from space