This isn’t new, but I was putting together a talk (for Starfest where I shared the stage with Leonard Nimoy (okay, not really “shared” since we weren’t on at the same time, and not really “stage” since I was in Panel Room 1 and he was on the Main Events Stage, but I did get to ask him a question: No, he’s not interested in buying a ticking on SpaceShip Two for a suborbital jaunt) on planetary exploration and collecting images and movies of the various current interplanetary mission, and I came across this spectacular set of images and movie of the Earth taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft. Click here for images and here for a movie as MESSENGER pulled away from Earth.