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On this day in space, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon

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Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon in 1977 .

Voyager 1 was more than 7 million miles away from Earth at the time.

Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn its cameras around one last time to take a family portrait of all the planets in the solar system.

It is now famously known as the Pale Blue dot.

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