14 February 1990
Waning Gibbous, 82% lit
The Earth as 0.12 of a pixel
Voyager 1 turned round from about six billion kilometres out and took a family portrait of the solar system, in which the Earth occupies less than one pixel.
Carl Sagan had pushed for it for years against the objection that it had no scientific value, which was correct. The cameras were switched off permanently afterwards to save power, so this is the last thing Voyager 1 ever saw.
- Date
- 14 February 1990
- Moon computed for
- 04:00 local time, UTC
- Phase
- Waning Gibbous
- Illuminated
- 82%
Source: NASA/JPL, Voyager 1 solar system portrait, PIA00452