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Awesome!  Looking at that will really remind you how small and insignificant we are.  Humbled!

Beauty hunter

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Planet earth- most cool :wub:
Beautiful :biggrin:

Planet earth- most cool :wub: 
Beautiful 😀

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Those are just so beautiful! What a lovely planet we occupy. I would love to have some 24 x 24 glossies of those

I was glad to see that man had nothing large enough to be visible in the photos.

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scooterbug44

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[quote="ASH, post: 652506"]I was glad to see that man had nothing large enough to be visible in the photos.[/quote]

Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way. :biggrin:

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="ASH">I was glad to see that man had nothing large enough to be visible in the photos.</blockquote> 
Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way. 😀

Kurt

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[quote="scooterbug44, post: 652551"]Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way. :biggrin:[/quote]

Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="scooterbug44">Yep, to date there is no manmade object visible from space. I like it that way. 😀</blockquote> 
Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.

Miss Critter

Thanks, kurt, for a much-needed dose of beautiful perspective.

[quote="kurt, post: 652562"]Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.[/quote]

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.

[url]http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html[/url]

<blockquote class="xfBb-quote" data-name="kurt">Great Wall of China is. Lots of them visible at night.</blockquote> 
No, per NASA, you can&#039;t see anything man made once you leave the Earth&#039;s orbit. 
 
You can see many things in low earth orbit with the naked eye, but not from space. 
 
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html</a>

Minnie

It must have been amazing to the first men in space to know that the map makers got it right so many years before.

b2y_ni

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got any pics?

Courtesy NASA

West - [url]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/2222523486_fcc9118fdf_o.jpg[/url]

East - [url]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/globe_east_2048.jpg[/url]

Courtesy NASA 
 
West - <a href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/2222523486_fcc9118fdf_o.jpg" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/2222523486_fcc9118fdf_o.jpg</a> 
 
East - <a href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/globe_east_2048.jpg" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/globe_east_2048.jpg</a>

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