Pale Blue Dot
Subtitle: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Edition: Ballantine Books Ed edition
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: September 8, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780345376596
Subjects: Popular astronomy; Technology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / Astrophysics & Space Science; Aeronautics & Astronautics; Exploration; Outer space; Popular works
First sentence: The spacecraft was a long way from home, beyond the orbit of the outermost planet and high above the ecliptic plane-which is an imaginary flat surface that we can think of as something like a racetrack in which the orbits of the planets are mainly confined.