All Creation Praise Him
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Tuesday, September 20, 2011
In time-lapse photography from the International Space Station, here is what it’s like to fly over the earth. Go full screen!
How An Astronaut Sees Earth
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Saturday, June 11, 2011
This video from NASA is fascinating in its own right, but I love the reflection it inspires in Msgr. Charles Pope.
It reminds me of a quasi-religious experience I had last Memorial Day when, following the parade on the Mall, I took the kids to the National Air & Space Museum to see Hubble 3-D.
The film is a window simultaneously into two worlds: the practical and precision world of all that goes... READ MORE
Fly Me to the Moon
with Google Earth
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Monday, July 20, 2009
In honor of the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon, Google Earth offers a new feature that allows you to observe the moon’s terrain—as well as see the evidence of man’s visit there. This will make a nice little summer-homeschool study for today, I think.
Earth Day
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Today is Earth Day 2009, the day that marks “the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.”
For a long time, I worried that such movements were beyond-tree-hugging liberalism at its finest. I love the Earth, of course, and I will admit that I get overly-emotional when I see forests being clear-cut for new development. But I never wanted to get so skewed in my efforts that... READ MORE
Akimiski Island
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Sunday, January 18, 2009
An island off the coast of Ontario as seen from a satellite.
Go here to see this photo in the huge scale it deserves—and for more satellite pictures of our amazing planet.
Which is your favorite? Mine might be the God’s-eye view of Tibet—it looks like frost on a window-pane.
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