Image Sources

“Pale Blue Dot” By Voyager 1 (NASA) [Public domain], via NASA.

“Spacecraft Diagram” By NASA/JPL [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Voyager (1 and 2) were sent out to study the farthest planets in 1977 and have now left the solar system. The card shows two images. One is a sketch for a Voyager probe, a lonely searcher that has been sent off farther than anything else. The background shows Earth, an isolated civilization among mostly empty space. Earth is a single dot in the faint orange line farthest to the right.

Keywords

• solitude
• isolation
• introspection

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