Celebrate Earth - NASA Earth Day Video Contest 2012

“ From the first television images of Earth from space, to the now iconic Apollo photographs of Earth, to Voyager’s “pale blue dot,“ NASA has changed how we think about exploring Earth and even how we see Earth. Looking back from space provides far more than thought-provoking pictures. NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites orbits our planet multiple times each day, scanning the air, land and seas for critical information about how our planet behaves and how it is changing. Computer-aided visualization of these otherwise invisible reams of data continues to show us radical new ways of looking at Earth.“ This video was made for the NASA Earth Day Contest for 2012. A piece of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech is chosen because I find that many people fail to take in the sure volume of life and activity that happens on our tiny, tiny planet in the smallest fraction of space. The video contains footage from Earth orbiting satellites provided by NASA with Instrumen