Wednesday, April 20, 2022

It's the Earth, on Earth Day

 A link to a National Geographic webpage: Milestones in Space Photography.

 

Can we agree that our home is a very, very fine home, and that we must do everything we can to preserve and conserve it?   

Several images of the Earth from space are nicely presented here.

Earth Rise

This image is of Earth Rise from the Moon is widely touted as a spark that started the Environmental Movement.  True or Not, such photographs as these have inspired many of us to reconsider the fate of our trash.


Astronauts have commented that our atmosphere appears from space as a thin layer, approximately at the same scale as a layer of paint on a basketball.  



 

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