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Interstellar Probes - Part 5: The legacy of our first emissaries
The probes carried no explorers in the flesh, yet they returned a new image of who we were. In nineteen ninety, one of the outbound crafts was turned to take a 'family portrait' of its star system from afar. The resulting image, a faint speck flecked with sunlight, later became a symbol — a single pixel of reflected light that a scientist asked be called a 'pale blue dot.' This photograph reframed the human sense of scale: tiny and tenacious upon an indifferent stage.
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