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... )

Someone mentioned mud, and I immediately sang in my mind “mud, mud, glorious mud” - from ‘Hippopotamus’ by Flanders & Swann.

Mud is something they'd love to find on Mars - see HiRISE images of the Phoenix landing site at www.planetary.org/ blog/ article/ 00001472

Mud also plays a small, but vital role in the film The Ballad of Cable HogueAnd for ( Read more... )

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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