Perspectives from far, far away

Jan 02, 2012 04:08

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/26/best-image-ever/

"Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world, as seen by another manmade object already circling that world"

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/31/home-from-the-start-of-a-long-long-journey/

"That fuzzy blob on the left? That’s Earth. The one on the right: the Moon. In this one simple picture, you can see everywhere humans have ever been; hundreds of thousands of years spent on Earth, and a few brief days on the Moon. And this picture was taken from much farther than anyone has ever traveled."

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