Pale Blue Dot (buku)

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) adalah buku nonfiksi karya Carl Sagan. Buku ini merupakan sekuel Cosmos: A Personal Voyage dan terinspirasi dari foto "Pale Blue Dot". Sagan memberi deskripsi mendalam tentang foto tersebut dalam buku ini. Sagan mencampurkan filosofi mengenai tempat manusia di alam semesta dan penjelasan tentang pengetahuan tentang Tata Surya yang kita ketahui saat ini. Ia juga menceritakan visi umat manusia untuk masa depan.

 Bab 
 Wanderers: An Introduction
 You Are Here
 Aberrations of Light
 The Great Demotions
 A Universe Not Made for Us
 Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?
 The Triumph of Voyager
 Among the Moons of Saturn
 The First New Planet
 An American Ship at the Frontiers of the Solar System
 Sacred Black
 Evening and Morning Star
 The Ground Melts
 The Gift of Apollo
 Exploring Other Worlds and Protecting This One
 The Gates of the Wonder World Open
 Scaling Heaven
 Routine Interplanetary Violence
 The Marsh of Camarina
 Remaking the Planets
 Darkness
 To the Sky!
 Tiptoeing Through the Milky Way

 Lihat pula 

 Carl Sagan
 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
 Cosmos (buku)
 "Pale Blue Dot"
 "The Blue Marble"

 Referensi 


 Pranala luar 

 Sagan's rationale for human spaceflight Article about Carl Sagan and Pale Blue Dot
 A new picture of Earth taken through the rings of Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft on September 15, 2006. More information about photo.
 We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot. A short, fan-made film on The Pale Blue Dot, released a decade after Sagan's death. The posthumous narration is from Sagan himself, taken from one version of the audiobook version of "Pale Blue Dot".
 A partial video tour of the Sagan Planet Walk monument in Ithaca, NY

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