Author: NASA/Reid Wiseman
What’s the bright bit in the lower right?
Took me a while, but north is to the bottom left, and the land mass is mostly the sahara desert, with the Strait of Gibraltar near the edge .
Northern and southern lights are visible to highlight where the two poles are.
She’s so much more beautiful without all those petty, arbitrarily drawn lines all over her continents.
I wish Carl Sagan were still around.
He might wish he wasn’t given how fucking spot-on he was. Or maybe he’d be a John Connor and smash those anti-science mofos
The Demon-Haunted World
That’s fair, but my initial thought was he’d have been able to help delay or prevent… Wishful thinking I know.
Nope. That’s on us now. We all have to be Spartacus.
so pretty! amazing to see how thin is the atmosphere proportionally (and the two auroras! 🤩)
If you have no clue what you’re looking at, here’s the more familiar angle
Planet Australia!
The Sahara Desert?
