{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/5c8b114e19b0d8f76d4dfc08?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"156: Pale Blue Dot Today","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5a481aca95dfbf9d13d4dc6f/1552617725575-3b4fb14f3b40d09211707a8ab5c240fb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>If you've never heard Carl Sagan's spoken essay <em>Pale Blue Dot</em>, you'll get to hear it in today's episode. It still chokes me up.</p><p>Here is an Earthrise image taken a few years ago like those he contrasts the pale blue dot image with.</p><p><img src=\"http://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Earthrise.jpg\"> The Earth straddling the limb of the Moon, as seen from above Compton crater. Taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Here is the Pale Blue Dot image.</p><p><img src=\"http://joshuaspodek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pale_Blue_Dot.jpg\"> Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot (the blueish-white speck approximately halfway down the brown band to the right) within the darkness of deep space.</p>","author_name":"Joshua Spodek: Author, Speaker, Professor"}