A New And Stunning Way To See The Whole Earth

rmeyer@theatlantic.com, The Atlantic
Tue, 01/26/2016 - 12:10pm

One part of one frame from Glittering.Blue, capturing Indonesia, much of South Asia and mainland China, and Typhoon Sudelor JMA / Charlie Loyd The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 sits 22,000 miles from Earth in orbit. On August 5, 2015, it peered down at the half of Earth that it can see, a hemisphere with Japan at its center.

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