And now, this

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The true colours of the Earth.



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Comments

[cringer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that.. I think that sometimes we all need to be reminded how beautiful and fragile it really is.

Btw.. you guys need some serious green down there. Care to borrow some? :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Green? Is that sort of like Brown?

[kuangning]

Wow, is my home ever tiny. :) But that small, vaguely boot-shaped spot off the coast of Venezuela is *green.* Something about that makes me feel really good.

WOW!

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

Antarctica looks a bit like the moon o.0

That and I had no idea how barren Australia is o.o
You can see where I live in the sea of green that is the Eastern US :P I'm right below the lowest (lattitude wise) of the great lakes.
Interestingly, the state of Ohio is maybe about 3/5ths the size of all of all the British Isles :P and we are one of the smaller states.

Re: WOW!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Aus might look barren, but there is nowhere you won't find something living. It's great, mate!

I prefer this statistic: Texas is 2/3 the size on New South Wales. 8)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oooh, variable albedo. :)

[twoolfe.livejournal.com]

That's Beautiful Thank you for the post
HUGGZ
T.

[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. On a mailin list I moderate, someone posted a link to a similar photo that shows what the earth looks like at night all around the world. Similarly impressive. I'm using it as my desktop photo right now.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I've seen that, too. It's a wonderful piece of photography. And Australia is so dark I can pin-point the town I live in.

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[tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com]

Florida isn't dark but Jacksonville is a major city so it shows up wonderfully at the top of the east coast of the penninsula.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Wow, look at the lush verdant green up upper wisconsin! I live in the much lower less green bit:D! Any idea what that blue mass near to the Bahamas is? A hurricane? It is a great photograph, and doesn't need a Civ3 editor:)!

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

I like reminders that, from far enough away, at the right time of day, you can't see what we've done to the place.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

yeah!

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Wow... you can actually see Puget Sound! It's a bigger bay than I thought.

The pictures must be summer-based; I know that much of the middle parts (of the US, at least)get
seriously green for at least a while in spring, and white in winter.

Niiiiiifty. Thank you for sharing! :)