Look at how thin our atmosphere is

International Space Station Astronaut Wheelock, one of many venturers into space who have been moved to bring back to Earth a message of how thin our atmosphere is...

Tweeting this picture home, the Astronaut writes of how they were "basking in blue Earthshine as the rising sun pierces our razor-thin atmosphere"

Alexander Gerst on the #ISS writes home in tweets and his live blogging... Our "Blue Dot"

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space." [1] [2]

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A "Thin Layer of Blue"...

GreenPolicy360: A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it... Atmosphere of Earth - Wiki

GP360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..."

Astro Wiseman's point of view [3]

October 2014 - Live Astro Gerst blog

GreenPolicy360, from AstroGerst

Images revealing atmospheric 'height', the narrow band of life-giving atmosphere surrounding Earth

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Isn't It About Time? for #EnvironmentalSecurity

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We are in the first era of geo-monitoring the thin blue atmosphere, earth systems and biosphere from space... [8] [9]

Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era... [10] [11]

Now follows #Earth360 continuing first-generation data and #sustainability realizations

An #EarthPOV, an "Overview" that, over time, will educate and open us to new challenges

and new possibilities as citizens of the planet...

A "paper thin" layer absorbing the sum of human-produced hydrocarbon & emission "externalities"

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Tag: #EarthPOV; #Overview; #Troposphere; #ThinLayer

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