Here's NASA's image of the day for On September 18, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft paused in its mission to the stars to take this composite photograph. It was the first photograph in human history that pictured both the Earth and the Moon together but outside the orbit of either. It represented the triumph of human creativity, humility before the breathtaking limitlessness of creation, and the open horizons that lay before us.
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| Voyager 1 photograph, courtesy NASA.gov's "Image of the Day." |
Voyager 1 is still going, and still sending back data. It's taken almost 35 years, but NASA scientists expect that it will pass the border of the solar system into interstellar space at any time this year. At that point, humanity can say that we have extended something of ourselves into the vastness of the universe, that we have made the first tiny steps toward understanding God's infinite grandeur. I suspect, however, that the majority of Americans might not see it that way. Space is boring, I guess, or at least a whole lot less pressing than the daily troubles our government makes for itself.
But think about what's actually out there! Think about it: we can have an experience something like Abraham's supreme vision of God's creation!
