On 14 February 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe shut down its cameras for the rest of eternity.
1990年2月14日，旅行者1號太空探測器在接下來的時間裡關閉了相機。
A mere half hour before that, it recorded one final image.
僅僅半小時之前，它記錄了最後一幅圖像。
Humanity now knows that picture as the Pale Blue Dot.
人類現在知道這幅畫是蒼白的藍點。
Suspended in a beam of sunlight, Earth is a mere speck of blue set against the black nothingness of space.
懸浮在一束陽光中，地球只是一小片藍色的斑點，映襯著太空的黑色虛無。
Never before had we seen our home world quite like this - so vulnerable and alone.
我們從來沒有見過我們的家園像這樣-如此脆弱和孤獨。
Thirty years after the original release, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has published a new version of this iconic portrait of Earth, and it's as breathtaking as ever.
在最初發布30年後，NASA的噴氣推進實驗室(JPL)發佈了這幅地球標誌性肖像的新版本，它一如既往地令人歎為觀止。
Enlarged version of the new Pale Blue Dot release.
新的淡藍色圓點發布的放大版本。
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Yep. That tiny speck you can barely see, that's Earth.
是啊。你幾乎看不見的那個小斑點，那是地球。
As legendary astronomer Carl Sagan once put it, "every human being who ever was, lived out their lives" on that tiny dust mote.
正如傳奇天文學家卡爾·薩根(Carl Sagan)曾經說過的那樣，“每一個曾經存在過的人，都在那個小小的塵埃上度過了自己的一生”。
Using modern software, JPL's engineer Kevin M. Gill has processed the original data captured by Voyager 1 Narrow-Angle Camera in three spectral filters, re-balancing the colour channels and revealing more detail in the rays of sunlight scattered by the camera optics.
使用現代軟件，JPL的工程師Kevin M.Gill在三個光譜濾光片中處理了旅行者1號窄角相機捕獲的原始數據，重新平衡了顏色通道，並揭示了相機光學器件散射的太陽光的更多細節。
Earth is still barely larger than a crumb in this new release; the space probe was already so far from us when the image was captured, our planet occupied just 0.12 of a pixel.
在這個新發布的版本中，地球仍然只有一小塊麵包屑大小；當圖像被捕獲時，太空探測器已經離我們很遠了，我們的星球只佔了0.12個像素。
'Family portrait' mosaic of Voyager 1 Solar System images.
旅行者1號太陽系圖像的“家庭肖像”馬賽克。
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The Pale Blue Dot forms a part of the 'family portrait' Voyager 1 took of our Solar System - an endeavour that wasn't originally intended as part of the Voyager mission, but came to life thanks to a bright idea from Sagan, who saw the opportunity to capture our world floating in the great cosmic ocean.
蒼白的藍點構成了旅行者1號拍攝的太陽系“家庭肖像”的一部分-這一努力最初並不打算作為旅行者任務的一部分，但由於薩根的一個聰明想法，他獲得了生命，他看到了捕捉我們漂浮在浩瀚宇宙海洋中的世界的機會。
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