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Pale Blue Dot Information
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 The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth made by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. It is also the title of a 1994 book by astronomer Carl Sagan that was inspired by the photo. In 2001, it was selected...


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 Utopian Studies
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space.
03/22/1997: 1,043 words, approx. 4 pages Carl Sagan. NY: Random House, 1994. xviii + 429 pp. $22.00. IN 1972, DURING THE LAST VOYAGE by humans to the moon, the Apollo 17 astronauts took the famous photograph of the whole Earth that has become an icon of the 20th...
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 The Daily Mail (London, England)
A pale blue murder.
09/07/2004: 968 words, approx. 3 pages Byline: PETER PATERSON Blue Murder (ITV1); Silent Witness (BBC1) BLUE Murder is a lot more than the sum of its parts. ITV's new cop series presents us with a Mancunian detective who is also a single mother-of-four: not a unique...



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Critical Review by Phillip Morrison
1,143 words, approx. 4 pages
 In the following review, Morrison offers praise for Pale Blue Dot, concluding that "no recent book has done better at making plain the subtle nature and fascination of scientific investigation."
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Critical Review by Arthur C. Clarke
879 words, approx. 3 pages
 In the following review, Clarke offers praise for Pale Blue Dot, but objects to Sagan's reference to Wernher von Braun as a "Nazi-American."
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