Before I take off on vacation I wanted to finish and upload these two new desktop wallpapers for you. Both wallpapers feature the Earth, one is in natural color of two views of the planet and the other shows the entire planet at night with all the city lights aglow.
"The Blue Marble" shows our beautiful planet as maybe a visitor from afar or an astronaut would see it. Seeing our planet this way makes our lives seem so small in comparison. You can't see all the living things populating Earth. There are no apparent political boundaries. There are just the blues of the oceans and the seas, the browns and greens of the land, and the whites of the polar regions. How can you not love this planet and want to preserve it? That is the feeling that most astronauts and cosmonauts experience while "up there" in space looking back on Earth.
"Night Lights" shows by inference the inhabitants of this planet. All of the cities around the world that light up the night sky appear in this image. The lights are beacons to industrialized areas of this planet. What does it say about us?
Both new wallpapers in three sizes are on the third page. Click the link of the size you want and a new window opens. Depending on your connection speed and the wallpaper you select, please wait a minute or more for the image to load, then follow the instructions on the page.
Images are from visibleearth.nasa.gov and put together by me using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 and the fonts Nasalization by Ray Larabie and Trebuchet MS.
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