Tumbled Logic

Discover Magazine:

I need not explain what planet that is. Click to massively embiggen.

It’s the first full-disk image of the Earth from the GOES 14 satellite, launched in June of 2009. The image was taken on July 27, from a distance of about 36,000 km (22,000 miles). It’s a visible light image, so pretty much what you get is what you see. The resolution of the data is about 1 km (0.6 miles). Wow.

The absolute truth? I’m just posting this for use of the phrase “massively embiggen”. That’s 3209x3083 pixels, by the way.