The first four will be the new Good Global Citizens images, aren’t they amazing? And the last three will join GB’s flag of Earth. Updates: Another choice.
Category: Earth
Put a camera on a tripod, point at a dark starry sky, and hold the shutter open for about 10 minutes, and the image will show stars as circular arcs. But what happens if you do it in space? In 2012, Donald Roy Pettit, better known as Don Pettit, did just that, and made beautiful images from the […]
We might want to travel the universe to discover alien worlds, but what if I told you, you don’t have to go that far to see some alien landscapes. There are many places on Earth that boggle the mind, and the Dallol volcano in Africa is one of them. When I first saw it, I […]
You won’t believe what kind of mess we’ve made up into our atmosphere! As of 2013, more than 500,000 pieces of debris, the size of a marble or larger, travelling at speeds up to 28,164 km/h (17,500 mph), are orbiting our planet. More than 20,000 pieces are larger than a softball, and millions more are […]
We’re humans from Earth, but in a lot of English sci-fi movies and games, Earth is often referred to as Terra, and humans are subsequently known as Terrans. Sometimes they use the name Gaia, where we would be called Gaians.
I know it’s an oldie, but I just had to share this amazing video of Earth, seen from the International Space Station, with you. The video is made by Michael König, and consists of time-lapse sequences of photographs taken with a low-light camera by the crew of expeditions 28 and 29 aboard the ISS, from August to […]