Pale Blue Dot

This is a mix I made inspired by the Voyager 1 photo of Earth - the spacecraft’s last photo, taken 3.7 billion miles away as it left the solar system - and Carl Sagan’s musings about the photo in his book of the same title. The cover is the photo itself (you can see the Earth-dot in the brownish sunbeam on the right).

This collection is meant to be meditative - simultaneously reflective of the wow-factor inherent in the first man-made object leaving the orbits of our family of planets, and of the perspective of ourselves beamed to us after Voyager 1’s last look back. The mix is not intended to exude anything diminishing or lonesome, but rather the feeling of calm that comes with the humility of seeing ourselves from a truly universal angle.