Regular visitors to this blog will know that I’ve been enjoying eavesdropping on other people’s selfies.  So imagine my delight when I came across this global selfie from NASA.  Yes, THE NASA!

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NASA Unveils Selfie of Earth Created With Tens of Thousands of Individual Pictures

Posted by Dan Vergano in StarStruck on May 27, 201424

A low-resolution preview of the 3.2-billion-pixel sized NASA Earth Day Global Selfie 2014 photo mosaic. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/NOAA

Say “cheese!”  NASA has unveiled a global selfie, a stunning mosaic of the planet Earth seen from outer space that was stitched together from tens of thousands of self-portraits taken by people from around the world.

The Earth images were created with more than 36,000 selfies that were submitted to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory  this year on Earth Day, by people from 131 nations or regions. In the mosaic, self-portraits with blue backgrounds illustrate oceans, those with white backgrounds illustrate clouds, and photos with brown backgrounds illustrate continents.

We were overwhelmed to see people participate from so many countries,” says NASA’s Peg Luce, in a statement. “We’re very grateful that people took the time to celebrate our home planet together, and we look forward to everyone doing their part to be good stewards of our precious Earth.” See also: “Global ‘Selfie’ to Be Beamed to Outer Space.”

via NASA Unveils Selfie of Earth Created With Tens of Thousands of Individual Pictures – News Watch.

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Here’s a close up

and if you want to explore the globe in all its selfie glory, go here and zoom in to your heart’s content.