This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date.
Credit:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli
"The earth is our only home. As far as current scientific knowledge is concerned,this may be the only planet that can support life.One of the most powerful visions I have experienced was the first photograph of the earth from outer space.The image of a blue planet floating in deep space,glowing like the full moon on a clear night, brought home powerfully to me the recognition that we are indeed all members of a single family sharing one little house.I was flooded with the feeling of how ridiculous are the various disagreements and squabbles within the human family.I saw how futile it is to cling so tenaciously to the differences that divide us.From this perspective one feels the fragility, the vulnerability of our planet and its limited occupation of a small obit sandwiched between Venus and Mars in the vast infinity of space.If we do not look after this home,what else are we charged to do on this earth? "
H.H. The Dalai Lama
The Universe In A Single Atom
