24/7/365

NASA released a one-year continuous time lapse of the Earth from a point approximately 1 million miles from the Earth between it and the sun.  They spliced together 365 days worth of time lapse from shots of the Earth taken every two hours.  It was fascinating to see the cloud patterns and the wobble of the Earth slightly from the video.  The Earth didn't look quite as vibrantly blue as the famous picture taken from the Apollo 11 in 1969.  But, it was still noticeably blue against the backdrop of the blackness of space.

I am always amazed at the different look of the Earth in space as opposed to the shots NASA releases of other planets by space probes.  Anyone arriving in our galaxy from elsewhere would certainly notice it too.  It is inviting to see such vast blue oceans, cloud patterns, and land masses.  And I can see why the area of the Egyptian pyramids would have been singled out after looking at the planet from a million miles away.  It is a center point on the Earth that is almost always visible.  Clouds rarely cover the area.

The video, I'm sure, will spawn many thoughts after getting to see it.  I'm glad to be alive at this time and place in space/time.