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A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues...
This is an extraordinary view of the Earth that captivates students and often gives them a sense of awe and wonder for the planet we call home. 
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NASA has released a new Blue Marble image, showing the United States of America. According to them, it's the "most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever." Blue Marble 2012 bests the 2010 edition and the original one.
Beautiful image...follow the link for a video of the image at a variety of scales as well as the specs and production that went into it. There is an 8000 x 8000 pixel version as well as many lower resolution versions.
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This is a video introduction to www.historypin.com which might just prove to be a very useful and important project. It's historical geography powered by collaborative mapping that is infused with social media dynamics. Backed by Google, they are geo-tagging old photos to recreate the historical geographies of all places and comparing them with current street view images. You can search by topic, place or date...this has the potential to be very big.
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The USGS is celebrating 40 years of the LANDSAT Program by having a competition to select the top 5 "Earth as Art" images from the more than 120 scenes from their curated collection. All readers can select 5 images on the USGS website and the poll closes on July 6, 2012 (The image above is from Coahuila, Mexico).
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