Planet Earth

NASA has released some wonderful new images of the earth. A series of pictures, taken between June and September 2001 by the Moderate Resolution Imagining Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra satellite, were then stitched together to form this one, high-resolution image:

See some more pictures, new and old (compare the above recent image with the 1972 image from Apollo 17!), here.