{"id":17773,"date":"2012-01-26T14:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17773"},"modified":"2012-01-26T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T20:31:27","slug":"nasas-astounding-photo-of-earth-as-it-hangs-in-space-see-the-earth-as-it-truly-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/nasas-astounding-photo-of-earth-as-it-hangs-in-space-see-the-earth-as-it-truly-is\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s Astounding Photo of Earth as It Hangs in Space, See the Earth as it Truly Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo of the world as stitched together from NASA’s weather satellite Suomi NPP is the very definition of amazing. We can’t stress enough how much you need to follow this link to the high definition image on NASA Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Download <\/a>and have a look at our world, standing alone, in the black.<\/p>\n

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Because we could not leave well enough alone, and perhaps this image stirred a bit of our poetic spirit, we found a website of Space Quotations<\/a> devoted specifically to the big blue marble<\/a> that is Earth.<\/p>\n

To see the earth as it truly is<\/a>, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves a riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbrothers who know now they are truly brothers.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Archibald MacLeish, American poet, ‘Riders on earth together, Brothers in eternal cold,’ front page of the New York Times, Christmas Day, 25 December 1968<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nBonus!<\/strong>
\nSpeaking of big blue marbles, who else remembers watching a children’s TV series called “Big Blue Marble<\/a>“? We couldn’t get enough of this show as a kid. We’re pretty sure it’s what began our addiction to the local Alabama’s Public Television<\/a> station.<\/p>\n