‘Earth Is Where We Make Our Stand’: The Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan

By Rich Kacmar and Anna Daniels

Happy New Year! Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot was inspired by a photograph taken by Voyager I in February of 1990. A great deal has happened in our small corner of the universe in the ensuing decades. Sagan’s message is still resonant–this pale blue dot is all we have at the moment. Earth is indeed the place where we make our stand.

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