Beautiful New Earth-From-Space Footage from NASA

The blue marble
The blue marble NASA Earth Observatory

Take a couple minutes between the barbecue and fireworks to put things into the larger context by appreciating “that we are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, that we are all interconnected, that we are all in this together, that we are all family.”

The Atlantic points us to this beautiful of NASA footage, put together by Vimeo user Tomislav Safundžić:

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