claim: ( Kerr 2007 ) points out that the sunlight-reflecting haze that cools much of the planet seems to have thinned over the past decade or so.
evidence: Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers ( 3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU ), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.