Helping to make the world a little smaller, one blue marble at a time.
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of fresh water. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.1 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. … Read More “March 22 is World Water Day!” »
NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) Experiment, mounted on the ISS External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module, was activated April 30, 2014 and after 5 years and 79 days was viewed by more than 318 million viewers across the globe on USTREAM alone. This high definition video opens with a text … Read More “HDEV Livestream (2014-2019): The Pale Blue Dot” »
The technological developments of the latter half of the 20th century are widely considered to have altered the public’s perception of the Earth. Before space flight, the popular image of Earth was of a green world. Science fiction artist Frank R. Paul provided perhaps the first image of a cloudless blue planet (with sharply defined … Read More ““It’s a Blue World”” »
