Earth: Blue Marble 2012, Western Hemisphere Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring See More Extraordinary Street Art by Alice Pasquini of Italy All Creatures Great & Small: Captivating Wildlife Photography by Simon Roy Pluto: Stunning Nightside Image Reveals Pluto’s Hazy Skies, NASA, 2015 Autumn Meadow, by Charles Warren Eaton, 1888 Portrait of a Young Girl by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1839 Breaker Boys in No. 9, Pennsylvania Coal Co., 1911 Bronze Pearl II by Didier Kobi Great Hall, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, by Jim Babson Flowers, Women, a Bird & the Moon: Photography by Luz Adriana Villa A. View of the Kremlin by Johanne Gottlieb Lohrer, 1813 Closer to Heaven: Beautiful HDR Photography by Nik Chavannes The Whole World in a Drop: Fabulous Splash Art by Markus Reugels The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, circa 1665 A Roemer Glass, Overturned Pewter Jug, Olives, and a Half-Peeled Lemon on Pewter Plates, by Pieter Claesz, 1635 A Summer Garden, by Helen Allingham Coins by Tim Clarke Apple Tree with Red Fruit, by Paul Ranson, circa 1902 Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop, by Rachel Ruysch, 1716 It Might Be You: Beautiful Photography by Kiyoshi Noguchi Rêver en Couleur: Brilliant Abstract Photography by Ursula Abresch Piazza of St Mark’s, Venice, by William Logsdail The Little Duckling by Brooke Pennington Roses, by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1871 NASA Hubble Sees Sparring Antennae Galaxies Little Julia: Photography by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1911 Head Turner, by Juan Lois On the Loxahatchee by Joey J. Schwartz A Gold Compositional Study for Earthbound, by Evelyn Pickering de Morgan, 1897 Helicalish by Russell Tomlin Portrait of a Young Girl, by Alexei Alexeievich Harlamoff, 1884 by Laura Posted on January 26, 2012 Posted in Big Picture, Photography | tagged astronomy, Blue Marble, Central America, clouds, Earth, Earth from Space, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, NASA, oceans, Pacific Ocean, seas, space, spheres, United States. The permalink.