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The wonderful Earth

Ixion

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Ixion
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I just saw this on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (though it is a video) and wanted to share. It shows several segments of film of the International Space Station's orbit of the Earth during the night, in time-lapse. I don't know if it has been linked before since it is about 6 months old, but I found it quite nice. You can watch it in hi-res if you like, and you can pick out a little more detail with the lights off. Enjoy!

 
I think I had seen that, but it certainly is worth watching again, especially in HD.

APOD is pretty great! :)
 
I will defer to Carl Sagan - simply I dont have the words to describe that footage

"Look the pale blue dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
 
Wow.
(Though with that music it kind of looked like a mass effect 3 trailer lol)
 
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MG1962 said:
I will defer to Carl Sagan - simply I dont have the words to describe that footage

"Look the pale blue dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
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Hope you don't mind that I stole this quote to put on my FB wall.

Thanks, Ixion. Incredible.
 
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