Something for the Weekend

First things first, Earth. NASA has just released the most detailed whole planet pictures to date showing our small, mostly blue, ball in stunning detail. Can you pick out your location?

http://gizmodo.com/5478787/the
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(Just click to enlarge)

To go hand in hand with the new pictures is this animation showing plate tectonics and how our planet has evolved over the last 600 million years and our predicted future (this is from the Northern University of Arizona’s Geology dept)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=uGcDed4xVD4

Finally as a follow up to two weeks ago’s focus on STS130 here is a nice photographic record of the mission from the guys themselves.

http://www.sacbee.com/static/w
eblogs/photos/2010/02/space-sh
uttle-endeavours-missi.html