When the Voyager One spacecraft
Left
The Planetary Part of the solar system
We were able
it turn out it was me
to get it to turn back
and to photograph
all the worlds
it had left
and so we now have a
portrait
of the solar system in which we live
there is a background of distant stars
the planets are spread out on either side of the sun
the sun looks wonderfully like a child's drawing of it
raised coming out because of difraction produced by an obstacle on the spacecraft
and you look at those planets
and they are very small
some are
lost
in the background of brighter
or distance stars
and then you look for the Earth
and you can find it
is not very bright
not very big is one pixel one picture out
it's a blue dot
That's where we live
our home
it's a blue dot
I ask you to cherish
that blue dot
it's the only home we have
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