What is man that You are mindful of him?

The Voyager I, a probe sent by NASA to study our solar system, passed beyond the orbit of Pluto in 1990. Still in range of contacting Earth, NASA scientists had the Voyager I look back toward our planet and take a picture, which has since been received. This picture is referred to as "The Pale Blue Dot," which is fitting once you have seen the image (seen above). Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer, in response to this image, wrote:

Look at the earth in this picture—a pale, blue dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. And on that dot everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Every act of human heroism or betrayal, the sum total of human joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, moral teacher and corrupt politician, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. What is the glory and triumph of the greatest conquerors and builders of empires? They were the momentary masters of a fraction of a blue dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in teh vast and enveloping cosmic dark.

Carl Sagan, "A Pale Blue Dot: The Earth from the Frontiers of
the Solar System," Parade, 9 September 1990, 20–21.

O Lord, what is man that You
regard him,
or the son of man that You
think of him?
Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing
shadow.

Psalm 144:3–4

When I look at Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful
of him,
and the son of man that you care
for him?

Psalm 8:3–4