Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea, taken March 10, 2012.

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NASA visualization contrasts all of Earth’s water with water on Jupiter’s moon Europa – by comparison, our planet is practically a desert. 

(ᔥ Carl Zimmer)

But no it’s not precious at all.

Science putting things in perspective since forever.

Go outside somewhere on a clear, very dark night. The Andromeda Galaxy is so close, and so large it appears four times the diameter of Earth’s moon in our sky.

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Don’t look now, but the world’s fisheries are plummeting.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. - Genesis 9:2

Because fuck biodiversity!

Americans Listening to Politicians, Not Climate Scientists

Sagan, on the ironies of war and the Apollo 11 mission

This nighttime image photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station provides a look toward the Mediterranean Sea. Along the left side, the night lights clearly depict the high population associated with the Nile River and its delta and the Alexandria, Egypt area (top left center). The Gulf of Suez and the Suez Canal are seen to the right.