Now here's a decent desktop wallpaper

[Kurt]

Courtesy NASA

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

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

 

[puglet]

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

 

[Beauty hunter]

Planet earth- most cool
Beautiful

 

[Allifunn]

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

 

[ASH]

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

 

[Teresa]

isn't she beautiful?

 

[scooterbug44]

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

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

 

[Kurt]

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

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

 

[Miss Critter]

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

 

[scooterbug44]

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

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.

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