Mesmerizing Satellite Photos Show How Much We've Changed the Natural World
From the obsidian depths of the cosmos, the planet Earth is but a grain of blue, anchored only by the gravitational pull of the sun and sheltered merely by a slender membrane of atmosphere. In the 1980s, writer Frank White called it “The Overview Effect”: an almost all-consuming sense of reverence and responsibility that pierces the psyches of astronauts as they peer down at the round and floating gem that is our eternal home.
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