This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is a part of the first ever ‘portrait’ of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. This blown-up image of the Earth was taken through three color filters – violet, blue and green – and recombined to produce the color image. The background features in the image are artifacts resulting from the magnification. Reason for nomination:This image is the most distant image of the Earth ever recorded, making it a "historical or otherwise unique image". It shows just how small our planet is in space - as it is taken from just outside the Solar System. The low resolution is a inherent in its creation, because of the device (Voyager 1) and the distance - from 6 billion kilometres away the Earth appears as a tiny speck, visible only at low resolution. Also, this picture is actually a blown up version of a much smaller image in which the Earth is essentially invisible, and the graininess results from that increase in size. It appears as NASA created and distributed it - no larger versions are available. It has very high encyclopedic value in illustrating Pale Blue Dot, and significant encyclopedic value as iconic image of the Voyager Program.
Nominated as the most valued set of images on Wikimedia Commons within the scope: Planet Earth (or Pale Blue Dot) seen from 6 billion km away, actually outside the solar system.
Info We have two types of nominations (see above "How to nominate an image or a set of images for VI status"): 1. "Adding a new nomination (image)", that means, you nominate 1 (one, a single) picture, and 2. "Adding a new nomination (set)", that means, two or more pictures (see the nomination just below, which constist of three pictures). You nominated your picture in the second category, although you nominated just one picture. Please withdraw your nomination here and nominate the picture in the category "Adding a new nomination (image)", then it is correct, or you nominate e.g. a set of pictures taken from different distances from the earth, then the nomination here would be ok. --Llez (talk) 11:38, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Question… OK, i didn't know and have never done this before. I just that this picture is a very valuable image and so i tried to do the right thing. How can i nominate this properly? - Benzband (talk) 16:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
