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As the sun shutters the world, city lights crackle to life.

There’s a dancing curtain of aurora borealis. And stars seemingly swarming all around.

This is Earth, as seen from hundreds of kilometres away, by a handful of its most fortunate citizens.

We should all see the world from this vantage.

It may, in fact, do us a world of good.

“When we look down on the Earth from space, we see this indescribably beautiful planet,” says astronaut Ron Garan in a short documentary released at the end of last year called Overview. “It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also at the same time looks extremely fragile.”

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“This taffy-twisted African rock reminds me of a dolphin, and Alfred Hitchcock.”

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