Photos taken by astronauts of our world

[lunatica]

Los Angeles to Las Vegas


London during the day


London at night


Egypt, Suez, Mediterranean


Bay Area


Richmond, VA to New York City at night


Acapulco

[Bucky]

1. I could spend hours on these

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. The "V" shape of the Antelope Valley in the first pic is, for me anyway....

one of the most recognizable geographic features on the planet.

The line that makes up the mountain ridge line on the southern edge of the valley is the San Andreas fault. I lived in Palmdale when I first joined DU, about 5 miles from the actual fault. Not one single earthquake the entire 3 years I lived there.

[Duer 157099]

5. Same here. It's the feature I always use to orient myself n/t

[edbermac]

3. The Blue Marble from the crew of Apollo 17

[marzipanni]

4. Quotes from Astronauts 'Looking Back at the Earth'

For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light—our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

— Ulf Merbold, German astronaut


This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.

— Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 astronaut, speech at Millersville University, Pennslyvania. 15 October 1992.

more-
http://www.spacequotations.com/earth.html

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Amazing how Egypt largely exists along the Nile and nowhere else

...just like 4,000 years ago.