Am 13. Februar 1990 begann Voyager 1 auf dem Weg zum Rand des Sonnensystems mit einer vierstündigen Rückblickserie, die die Sonne und sechs ihrer Planeten einfing.

> But for us, it’s different. Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s
us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every
human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and
suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines,
every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of
civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and
father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every
corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and
sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a
sunbeam. – Carl Sagan