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01 March 2010

New, best-ever "blue marble" image (532KB JPG - 2048 x 2048)
Wow, that's beautiful.
posted by essexjan 01 March | 16:32
Oooh, shiny.
posted by sperose 01 March | 16:45
And totally Eastern Hemisphere! How refereshing! (NOT SARCASTIC)
posted by oneswellfoop 01 March | 16:58
That really is beautiful. And it took me a couple of seconds to orient my brain, which was a nice neural workout :)
posted by gaspode 01 March | 17:02
That is a nice one. And I love it too, when the US is not at the center of the image.
posted by MonkeyButter 01 March | 17:15
It is a beautiful world in which we live, isn't it? I mean, especially from far away like that.
posted by jabberjaw 01 March | 17:17
Nice! It's kind of terrifying, however, to move your little magnifying glass thingy all the way to the bottom left corner and then click it. That perfect wedge of blackness at the edge of the shimmering blue disk? That's a little slice of infinity. And that's a whole lot of nothing at all, my friends.
posted by Atom Eyes 01 March | 17:31
Sharp marble.
posted by buzzman 01 March | 18:20
Gooooorgeous.
posted by Miko 01 March | 20:23
Is there supposed to be a frowny face in that?
posted by deadcowdan 01 March | 20:36
I like it better that way, without all the lines on it.


And that, Atom Eyes, is why I find it more terrifying to look up out of an airplane window than to look down. The nothing is closer.
posted by notquitemaryann 01 March | 21:17
ANYTIME VULCAN, ANYTIME.
posted by The Whelk 01 March | 23:06
Only if it seemed so surreal down here on the surface. Too much cement and urban sprawl crowding out the real stuff. It would be awesome if one could instantly go up to space for a few seconds, look down at that, automatically relax, come back and be at ease until one needed to do it again. Or I guess I could just move to North Dakota or something.
posted by Spontaneous Maximus 02 March | 00:44
This is true. Puny humans are not equipped with sufficient zoom capabilities at all.
posted by notquitemaryann 02 March | 02:58
Space is damn dark. And uniform....
posted by Lipstick Thespian 02 March | 09:40
...and really, really big. IOW, this planet is it.
posted by chewatadistance 02 March | 10:33
Music! || Man survives car crash; dies while peeing on live wire

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