Earth seen from space 4 billion miles away

Part of the first ever "family portrait" of the solar system taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, this image of Earth was captured from a distance of more than 4 billion miles. Pictured here as a dot only 0.12 pixels in size, the Earth is, as described by Voyager contributor Carl Sagan, "...a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish this pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - www.space.com

If we could only realize that we are just tiny "bacterias" thriving in a tiny speck of dust floating in the vastness of space, we just might learn how to take care of this fragile planet and live amongst ourselves peacefully.