An atmospheric whirlpool in Earths Southern hemisphere, seen by the Rosetta Spacecraft during a gravity assist flyby of our planet.
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the Earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.
One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the Earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.”
- Carl Sagan
One thing that baffled me with the recent discovery of organic molecules found in meteorites, was the surprise that the mechanisms for life could be found in space.
We are in space.
(Source: ohscience)
Operation Window Seat - PIT-LAX
LA looks like circuit board city at sunset…
I’d want to make this a sticky post, so it would always be the first.
(Source: sirmitchell)
