Roy Prol's gift to the rest of us.

Thanks, Roy!

And thanks to Melinda for the referral.

Bright Sun and Crescent Earth

Click the pic!

Thanks to Astronomy Picture of the Day.

This is your planet

As so often, The Big Picture has some spectacular space photography -- this time of planet Earth. I never knew how much of our land surface looks like Mars.

Image: Irrigated landscape south of Khartoum.