"WHEN FASCISM COMES TO AMERICA IT WILL BE WRAPPED IN THE FLAG
AND CARRYING A CROSS." -SINCLAIR LEWIS

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Blue Marble Receding

A while back NASA's EPOXI spacecraft was launched into orbit around our sun with the intent of studying what other Earth-like planets and Moon-like moons looked like from great distances. Last December, it passed by the Earth for a gravity assist before heading back out but on the way it looked back in late May and shot these amazing time lapsed photos of our home world and it's largest satellite from 31 million miles away; images like this humble me as a human being:

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