Space Daily July 22, 2026 β€’ 14:00

A glimpse of home was among the last images Voyager 1’s cameras ever sent. Just 34 minutes after taking the most distant photo of Earth ever, the cameras were powered off to conserve energy β€” going dark for good - Space Daily

A glimpse of home was among the last images Voyager 1’s cameras ever sent. Just 34 minutes after taking the most distant photo of Earth ever, the cameras were powered off to conserve energy β€” going dark for good - Space Daily

A spacecraft billions of miles away captured Earth's final portrait before its cameras went dark forever, leaving scientists to wonder what lay just beyond that last frame.

There’s a small puzzle in the most famous photograph Voyager 1 ever took. The spacecraft looked back at Earth, caught it as a speck of light, and just 34 minutes later stopped seeing anything at all.… [+5857 chars]

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