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This is Our Planet

This is Our Planet from Tomislav Safundžić on Vimeo.

"This Is Our Planet," by Croatian 18-year-old Tomislav Safundžić, was created from imagery captured by NASA at the International Space Station. Wow.
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The Secret - Planet Earth HD

When you experience Planet Earth, the positive vibration of your energy will emanate out like a stone thrown into water, touching our planet and every living thing on it. As you rise higher, you take the world with you. The magnificent music was composed and graciously gifted for this clip by composer Jo Blankenburg. From The Secret to you, here is Planet Earth - our home.
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Earth Speaks Up and Sings "How Am I Going To Reach You?"

The Time is NOW to get involved in the movement towards a sustainable planet. It is very clear that there is an imbalance and Mother Nature is speaking very loud! LINK: Youtube

Time-Lapse Video of the Earth Rotating Under an Astronaut

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Astronaut and educator Don Pettit recorded this time-lapse video from the International Space Station. It shows day turning into night as the Earth rotates beneath him.

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13 Alien Vegetables You Can Find On Earth

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These 13 vegetables look like they have been harvested from alien lands. In reality they are all available to buy on planet Earth. LINK: The Presurfer

Fastest animals on Earth in slow motion - Animal Camera - BBC

Learn how the fastest animals on the planet move with the help of some truly awe-inspiring slow motion wildlife camera technology. See the amazing movements of a water balloon when it is popped, a lizard on the attack, and a crab with a fearsome punch. Great animal video from BBC wildlife show Animal Camera. Hosted by Steve Leonard. LINK: Youtube

The Artist Who Solved The Riddle of Earthshine

Leonardo Da Vinci is primarily associated with his artistic creations and his oddly inspired mechanical contraptions. However many people are unaware of his astronomical endeavors, more importantly his discovery of earthshine.

Already during the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci had correctly gathered enough information and drawings to explain the nature of earthshine. In Da Vinci’s Codex Leicester, published in the early 16th century, he states his belief that the Moon possessed an atmosphere and oceans, and that it was a fine reflector of light because it was covered with so much water. He also speculated about how storms on Earth could cause the earthshine to become brighter or dimmer, which is indeed observable with modern instrumentation.

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Tribute to the Dandelion: Whimsical World Wide Weed

The humble dandelion. From your garden to almost the ends of the earth this small but conspicuous plant flourishes. Gardeners do not appreciate its presence, considering it a weed, even though its flowering usually indicates the beginning of the honey bee season. Here is a short but sincere homage to the small wonder of our botanical world. LINK

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Incredible Natural Arches On Earth

“We humans sometimes seem to think we’ve got it all sown up as the premiere architects on this planet, but Nature is actually well ahead when it comes to constructing wonders of design emerging from the landscape. Take the arch, for example. While it was only a few millennia ago that humankind began to build these impressive structures, Mother Earth has been molding them for millions of years. Get your hiking boots on; we’re taking a trip to find the most amazing of these natural formations the earth has to offer, with points awarded for both size and splendor.” LINK

The Rings Of The Earth

How would the Earth look like if it had a ring system like Saturn?
A 3D Studio Max animation. LINK: Presurfer, Via: Youtube

The Cutest Flying Animals On Earth

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The sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) is a marsupial native to the forests and rainforests of eastern and northern Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It was introduced to Tasmania and about 15 years ago to the United States.

Not surprisingly, the sugar glider gets its name from the fact that it has a sweet tooth. Apart from leafs, insects and small vertebrates, this omnivore loves to feed on the sweet sap of certain species of eucalyptus, acacia and gum trees. LINK: Presurfer

Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information

Kihwan Kim, Sangmin Oh, Jeonggyu Lee, and Irfan Essa of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology are introducing methods for augmenting aerial visualizations of Earth (from tools such as Google Earth) with dynamic information obtained from videos.

Their goal is to make Augmented Earth Maps that visualize the live broadcast of dynamic sceneries within a city. They propose different approaches to analyze videos of pedestrians and cars, under differing conditions and then augment Aerial Earth Maps with live and dynamic information. They also analyze natural phenomenon (clouds) and project information from these to the AEMs to add the visual reality. LINK: Presurfer

Far-Out Photo: Sunrise in Space

This sunrise was photographed with a handheld camera by astronauts during space shuttle mission STS-127 on July 17, 2009. Credit: NASA.

Astronauts orbiting Earth see a lot more sunrises and sunsets that those of us stranded on the surface. They circle the planet every 90 minutes, and the sun just keeps coming.

A new picture of a sunrise from space was taken with a handheld camera by astronauts Friday on the day the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station during shuttle mission STS-127.

Earth's atmosphere appears as a thin crescent shape ranging from white to blue to purple, while the planet in the foreground is a black as the void beyond.

From the surface of Earth, the sun rises because of Earths endless, 24-hour rotation. From here, sunrises and sunsets are often orange or red because the light has more atmosphere to pass through to get to your eye when the sun is near the horizon, and only the red light, with a longer wavelength then blue light, can make it.

The astronauts see little of that from their perch more than 200 miles up, but the effect is still beautiful. LINK

JAXA/KAGUYA Earth-Rise and Earth-Set image over the moon

The EarthRise image Wide Shot taken from near the North Pole, and the Arabian Peninsula and Indian Ocean can be observed on the Earth.

The Earthset image Tele Shot taken from near the South Pole, and we can see the Australian Continent (center left) and the Asian Continent (lower right) on the Earth.
(C) JAXA/NHK. LINK: Youtube

Cartwheel in the Sky

This is the magnificent Cartwheel galaxy, a stellar structure which measures more than 100,000 light years across.

It was released to promote a 24-hour webcast from observatories around the world, marking the International Year of Astronomy.

The kaleidoscopic galaxy lies 500million light years from Earth, and its unusual shape is due to a catastrophic collision with one of the smaller galaxies on the lower left hundreds of millions of years ago.

The smaller galaxy produced compression waves in the gas of the Cartwheel as it plunged through it, which triggered bursts of star formation, lighting up the rim.

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Earth's First Rocks

An ancient rock from the earliest days of Earth's existence reveals the presence of water. LINK: Youtube

The Most Extreme Conditions Ever Seen On Earth

There have been volcanic eruptions thousands of times more powerful than Mt. St. Helens. Recent storms have redefined the ranking systems for wind speeds. The hottest place on Earth has hit temperatures 288 degrees hotter than the coldest place on earth.

Here is a compilation of the most extreme conditions that add a little spice (and devastation) to the planet Earth and its inhabitants. LINK

30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images Of Earth

At ground level, one can only imagine the sheer beauty of mountain ranges, deserts and deltas seen high up from NASA's satellites.

One can imagine however, they wouldn't be quite prepared for the fact that from 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art. The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist. Mother Nature is an abstract artist. LINK

Satellite Imagery as Art

Satellites take pictures of the earth for mapping, weather, science, and security. Art is a low priority when you’ve spend this much money to launch the camera! But the earth is a beautiful place, and the pictures sometimes are works of art. See Environmental Graffiti’s 30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth.

The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.

Pictured are underwater sand dunes in the Bahamas. Link, Via: Neatorama