Hurricane Irene, as seen from space, Aug. 26, 2011

From NASA and NOAA, a "Full Disk Image of Earth" captured from the GOES-13 satellite on August 26, 2011. Hurricane Irene (NASA info page here) is now almost one-third the size of the US East Coast.

Larger image here, Flickr.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Neat! About 2/3rd between Florida and Africa you can see the next tropical depression.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=721437857 Charlie Malone

Can we say…”The end times are upon us”. God warned us all about this in the Bible.
Seraphim_72

What a beautiful blue orb.
sigdrifa

Yikes… this thing looks like it’s bigger than all of Germany…
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Mark Demers

Maybe I’m bias, but we have the prettiest planet in our solar system.