When the human world & its damage to itself & its planet gets too much, sometimes looking at a bigger picture can distract us from our distress & despair. (NB: Need better, official links for these two.)

Mysterious Mercury reveals more surface secrets to Messenger spacecraftThe Messenger team were hoping to take close-up pictures of other features ( Read more... )

2007 - The year with a licence to kill!
In Sydney, perhaps we were referring to "Diamonds Are Forever"?


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Mother at a Celebration Dinner

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Hunter Stockton Thompson
*18 July 1937
+22 February 2005
Chief Gonzo


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From NASA's Earth Observatory Newsroom: The Blue Marble Next Generation (part of "Visible Earth") is a series of images that show the color of the Earth’s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution (500 meters/pixel) at a global scale.

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