5:18 PM
Passed along by Flynn, a link to the amazing NASA Visible Earth collection of satellite images. While not as deep as some other online orbital photo collections Visible Earth has terrific breadth, including before and after photos of the area near my parents' cabin when it was hit by a tornado, a fantastic photo of thunderstorms over Brazil, phytoplankton blooms in the Atlantic, Space Radar imaging of Calcutta, thermal photography of California wildfires, a phenomenal picture of the Aurora Australias taken from the Space Shuttle and much, much more.