Earth Day: NASA invites people to #PictureEarth, click away at the world around them
FirstpostFlowers in bloom, colourful insects, furry friends, crashing waves, puffy clouds & more are welcome. With Earth Day less than a week away on 22 April, American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration has invited people to celebrate the planet through a #PictureEarth contest. Photographers — whether you’re a professional, an amateur, or someone who cares little for “photography” — are invited to share images of the life, natural beauty or motion around them. For inspiration, NASA’s blogpost announcing the contest said the contest will welcome “blooming flowers, ancient trees, colourful insects, furry and feathered animals, crashing waves, molten lava, puffy clouds, frozen ice, and warm sunlight,” among other things in nature. “Each satellite picture reveals a small detail of the land, water, atmosphere, and life on Earth…a single brushstroke in the masterpiece that is our home planet.” And now NASA is turning to you and me to add pieces to its super-massive photo puzzle of our Planet Earth.