The Blue Marble, Updated

Over at The Daily Mail (UK), there’s a fantastic post on NASA’s recently-released Update Blue Marble images — the most detailed outer-space images of the Earth we have to date. (I’m not quite sure what “recently released” means. The NASA website can be a bit tricky to navigate, and while their Visible Earth section is well worth the navigational headaches, it’s hard for me to figure out exactly when the images were released. Or even taken, for that matter. 2001 or 2002, perhaps?)

One of the interesting things about that Daily Mail’s post is the inclusion of the original Blue Marble shot. The technology’s come quite a ways since then, but the overall impact — the WOW factor — is still very much the same.

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    Joseph Susanka has been doing development work for institutions of Catholic higher education since his graduation from Thomas Aquinas College in 1999. Currently residing in Lander, Wyoming — “where Stetsons meet Birkenstocks” — he is a columnist for Crisis Magazine and the Patheos Catholic portal.

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