The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.
Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
Ed note: Perfect for your desktop background. Click the photo for the 8000x8000 image
h/t Gizmodo
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To be clear—a good space program is not a manned space program. Frankly, I think we’re better off keeping the humans on the ground and the robots in space. We can do so many more amazing things at a fraction of the cost, and, unless a number of factors change drastically, we need to be using every last cent devoted to space exploration as efficiently as possible.
That said, the space shuttle is still a phenomenally cool piece of technology and innovation.
NASA's Two Logos: The Worm and the Meatball - NYTimes.com
Back in 1974, after the success of the Mercury and Apollo programs, but before the initiation of the Shuttle Program, NASA was convinced by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in its “Federal Graphics Improvement Program,” and do what many companies these days do to revive their image: undergo a redesign.
Apparently when you’re a grownup you get to buy toys whenever you want and stay up all night playing with them. And then bring them to work for Show and Tell.
The largest reservoir of water yet discovered in the cosmos, 12 billion light years away.
FINISH LINE At 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21, 2011, space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles — the final flight for the Space Shuttle Program. (Photo: Kim Shiflett / NASA)
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Space logo! (Mission patch for STS-134, aka Endeavour’s final flight.)
New personal goal: Create something that will leave the Earth’s atmosphere.
I want to work on the ISS. This channel might be the coolest thing I’ve stumbled across on the YouTubes.
ISS Update - April 13, 2011 (by ReelNASA)
