
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 7, 1990                   TAG: 9006070252
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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LONG, LONG-DISTANCE EARTH PHOTO RELEASED

As any photographer knows, shooting into the sun is tricky. But the spacecraft Voyager 1, zooming out of the solar system on its way to alien stars, had no choice when it snapped a historic "family portrait" of the solar system - the first taken from outside looking in.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released the photographs Wednesday.

The lonely subjects of the portrait are spread across more than 3 billion miles. Some are washed out or impaled in the solar glare, and some are elongated by motion. The "photographer" was about 4 billion miles from the sun when it snapped the mosaic of 64 images of the whirling planets over four hours last Feb. 13. - The Washington Post

by CNB