How would you describe the image of the earth from space exploration and satellites?

Everything looks different when viewed from different heights. If you were to meet someone from two hundred years ago, someone who knew nothing of space exploration and satelite images, how would you describe this image to that person?

That depends.. If you're referring to the globe, I'd call go with the marble thing too... If you're referring to a more zoomed image, I'd describe it as a huge quilt..

Look up Buzz Aldren - he added a commentary to that familar, beautiful image called 'earth rise'. There was another case of the first person to go into space in a balloon - he got to something like just over 30,000 feet (7 thousand feet higher than Mt. Everest). I'd personally describe it as a beautiful, green-blue jewell, floating in the dark void of space; just a blue speckle in the precious spectre of the universe.

what you see on the maps of the known world. They had maps of what the continents looked like -- as if they were looking down from space. Except when you actually look from space what you see is a lot of clouds obscurring the land.

It is swishing and swirling with beautiful colors of blue, green, and white hazed clouds. Rounded like a marble ball. And glowing like a light around the edges.