Author: NASA/Reid Wiseman
I wish Carl Sagan were still around.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
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He might wish he wasn't given how fucking spot-on he was. Or maybe he'd be a John Connor and smash those anti-science mofos
The Demon-Haunted World
That's fair, but my initial thought was he'd have been able to help delay or prevent... Wishful thinking I know.
Nope. That's on us now. We all have to be Spartacus.
If you have no clue what you’re looking at, here’s the more familiar angle
so pretty! amazing to see how thin is the atmosphere proportionally (and the two auroras! 🤩)
What's the bright bit in the lower right?
She's so much more beautiful without all those petty, arbitrarily drawn lines all over her continents.
Took me a while, but north is to the bottom left, and the land mass is mostly the sahara desert, with the Strait of Gibraltar near the edge .
Northern and southern lights are visible to highlight where the two poles are.
Planet Australia!
The Sahara Desert?