Your New Wallpaper

Most of you have probably already come across these new images of Earth taken by the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership.  The images are being called the new 'Blue Marble' after the original 'Blue Marble' image that was taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on their way to the moon.  The new 2012 Blue Marble is just ridiculously spectacular.  The images found on the NASA website are big-time high resolution and are definitely worth checking out.  And unless you're vehemently opposed to any desktop wallpaper other than Lolcats or something like that, I recommend saving the image (either hemisphere) as your background.  It's certainly a dazzling reminder of our both our insignificance and our accountability.

And if you're interested, Wired Science has a pretty good article on how the new Blue Marble images were taken and constructed.