Picture taken from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
— Neil Armstrong
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
— Carl Sagan
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
— Edgar Mitchel
This stunning picture of the earth was taken from NASA’s newest earth observing satellite, the Suomi NPP. Click to embiggen.