NASA Voyager's Solar System “family portrait” frame capturing Sun, Earth and Venus in a single photograph

On 14th February 1990, the cameras of Voyager 1 pointed back toward the Sun and took a series of pictures of the Sun and the planets, making the first ever "portrait" of our solar system as seen from the outside. In the course of taking this mosaic consisting of a total of 60 frames, Voyager 1 made several images of the inner solar system from a distance of approximately 4 billion miles and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. The wide-angle image of the Sun was taken with the camera's darkest filter (a methane absorption band) and the shortest possible exposure (5 thousandths of a second) to avoid saturating the camera's vidicon tube with scattered sunlight. The Sun is not large as seen from Voyager, only about one-fortieth of the diameter as seen from Earth, but is still almost 8 million times brighter than the brightest star in Earth's sky, Sirius.

The original Voyager Solar System family portrait files are 055560.023 through 0055590.010 in the QEDR volume VGR_1223
pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/w10n/voyager/qedr/VGR_1223/MAMQTV/

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