Looking up toward Earth, a boulder and the Moon’s horizon in the foreground, at Station 2 of the Apollo 17 landing site. Photo taken on December 12th, 1972. My favorite of the bunch. No matter how many of these I see, there’s always a little pause, a little “oh right! we’re spinning around out here in our little corner!” and I love that.

Looking up toward Earth, a boulder and the Moon’s horizon in the foreground, at Station 2 of the Apollo 17 landing site. Photo taken on December 12th, 1972.

My favorite of the bunch.

No matter how many of these I see, there’s always a little pause, a little “oh right! we’re spinning around out here in our little corner!” and I love that.

8 Jan 2010   [ space! photography the big picture home ]

…for the moment Earth is where we make our stand.

Reflections by Carl Sagan on our pale blue dot captured by Voyager 1 from nearly 4 billion miles away.

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

When Death Valley presented Dave and me with a small bit of the night sky: dumbstruck. This one from Voyager 1 might be my new favorite space photo (displacing Pillars of Creation).

Thanks, Mark. (:

17 Dec 2009   1 note   [ Carl Sagan space! via:mark home ]