Template:Are You Sure/February 14
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• ... that Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System, and that Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan?
• ... that engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley developed one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes?
• ... that "Have You Never Been Holden?" is a song by Oliva Newton-John and J.D. Salinger?