The Earth Rise

[ravip]

[crabdog]

What an incredible experience that must have been!

[Daffy D]

Amazing still after all these years.

I had an "Earthrise" poster on my wall for may years.

[MikeWill]

Amazing still after all these years.

I had an "Earthrise" poster on my wall for may years.

Daffy D,

I sent you a PM few days ago.

Have you seen it? Can you help?

[Daffy D]

Amazing still after all these years.

I had an "Earthrise" poster on my wall for may years.

Daffy D,

I sent you a PM few days ago.

Have you seen it? Can you help?

Mike so sorry I totally missed your post

Have sent you a reply.

Daffy.

[Daffy D]

Another space photo that is amazing is the "Pale Blue Dot"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.

In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight scattered by the camera's optics.^[1]

Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space,

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. - Carl Sagan

(Yes, this is a real photo!)

That’s not one of Saturn’s moons, that is in fact Earth 930 million miles further in the distance. What makes this also special is that this is only the second photograph of Earth taken from deep space, after Voyager-1’s original photo.

We like how a photo with such little detail can serve so vividly as a reminder to all of us, of our home, who we are, and how insignificant Earth is in this vast expanse of space. To date, Voyager-1’s Pale Blue Dot is the most distant photograph of Earth that has ever been taken and there aren’t any plans in the next 20 years to surpass that record, which might seem a little odd to some of our readers, who may not have even been born when it was taken…

[ravip]

The beauty of nature.

[crabdog]

This makes me want to talk about the foolishness of the need for supernatural beings in the universe but I don't want to start a flame war.

[Daffy D]

I forgot to give credit to cite of last paragraph in my OP.

http://petapixel.com/2013/03/25/the-pale-blue-dot-a-portrait-of-earth-shot-from-more-than-4-billion-miles-away/

Sorry my bad.