Courtesy NASA
West - http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/2222523486_fcc9118fdf_o.jpg
East - http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/globe_east_2048.jpg
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12Beach Comber
Awesome! Looking at that will really remind you how small and insignificant we are. Humbled!
Beach Fanatic
Planet earth- most cool 
Beautiful

Beautiful
FunnChef - AlisonCooks.com
Those are just so beautiful! What a lovely planet we occupy. I would love to have some 24 x 24 glossies of those
Beach Fanatic
I was glad to see that man had nothing large enough to be visible in the photos.
SoWal Guide
isn't she beautiful?
SoWal Expert
I was glad to see that man had nothing large enough to be visible in the photos.
Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way.
AdminAuthor
Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way.
Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.
Beach Fanatic
Thanks, kurt, for a much-needed dose of beautiful perspective.
SoWal Expert
Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.
No, per NASA, you can't see anything man made once you leave the Earth's orbit.
You can see many things in low earth orbit with the naked eye, but not from space.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html
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Beach Fanatic
It must have been amazing to the first men in space to know that the map makers got it right so many years before.
Beach Comber
wow 
got any pics?
Very cool 

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