The Messenger spacecraft took this photo of Earth as it sped off toward Mercury in August of 2004. This view of our planet shows the western coast of South America, with the Peruvian Andes curving around and down into Chile before disappearing into the dark of night.
Just above and to the right of the sun’s reflection on the waters of the Pacific are the clustered islands of the Galapagos, visible through a break in the clouds. A tropical storm seems to be swirling up along the Panama coast toward the lighter waters of the Caribbean.
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Lights in the Dark 
Far above the golden clouds,
The darkness vibrates.
The earth is blue.
And everything about it is a love song.
– Paul Simon
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Amazing how small and thin our veil of life is. You almost can’t see it but for the clouds.
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