How cool is this?
I found that via yesterday's APOD.
It is video taken by Deep Impact looking back from 50 million km (31 million miles) away in space.
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Thanks to NASA's Terra satellite for providing this image:
That tiny little white bar on the lower left, by the way? That's the scale of this image: 50 km (31 miles).
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OH! GET! OUT! Totally the coolest thing that I have seen in a long time.
I think at the end there you can see the full outline of south america. Absolutely awesome. What a neat little solar system we have! (Take that, Proxima Centauri!)
HJ
Coby
Wow that is such a cool video of our Planet Earth. Thanks for sharing this one with us.
Please post more when you can
Acai