the big picture - earth day

Hoover Dam, on the on the Colorado River, on the border of Arizona and Nevada, seen from a DigitalGlobe satellite on February 28, 2010. The energy generated by Hoover Dam annually is about 4.2 billion kilowatt-hours. (DigitalGlobe) #

A gray whale surfaces near the mouth of the Duwamish River late Saturday March 27, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. The nearly 40 foot-long animal was watched by excited spectators as it hugged the shore around the West Seattle peninsula earlier in the day. Gray whales are not as common in Puget Sound as orca whales; gray whales are rarely seen in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle. Maritime officials with the Port of Seattle were concerned the whale would attempt to travel up the Duwamish River, a major industrial area and Superfund site. (AP Photo/Seattle Post Intelligencer, Joshua Trujillo) #

An aircraft passes the moon over Frankfurt, Germany on Thursday, April 22, 2010, as German air traffic went back to normality following the airspace closure due to the volcanic ash cloud that came from Iceland. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) #A late afternoon rainbow appears briefly above Port Susan near Stanwood, Washington on April 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Skagit Valley Herald, Frank Varga) #

A crowd watch as a baby hawksbill turtle swims into the deep after a symbolic release ceremony on Pramuka Island located north of Jakarta, Indonesia on April 20, 2010. Twenty baby hawksbill turtles and four four months old hawksbill turtles were released from the turtle conservation area. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images) #

The Sun appears slightly squished in this image of the Earth eclipsing the Sun seen from NASA's recently-launched Solar Dynamics Observatory in high orbit. An instrument on board, the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, was undergoing a series of adjustments when its view was partially blocked by the Earth. At the edges of the shadow, the Sun's shape bends, due to the light's refraction by the Earth's atmosphere. (NASA) #High above the African continent, tall, dense cumulonimbus clouds loom on April 22, 2010. The clouds can form alone, in clusters, or along a cold front in a squall line. The high energy of these storms is associated with heavy precipitation, lightning, high wind speeds and tornadoes. (AFP/Getty Images/NASA) #

The Northern Lights appear above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the evening April 22, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) #

A larval tube-anemone fishes for food with the tentacles it will use as an adult as seen in an undated handout photo released April 18, 2010. (REUTERS/Cheryl Clarke-Hopcroft/UAF/CMarZ) #

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as seen from the International Space Station on April 14th, 2010. The image spans just over 80 km (50 mi). (NASA) #A mature bald eagle calls out to its mate Monday, April 12, 2010, near the the confluence of the Tanana and Chena Rivers outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. (AP Photo/The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, John Wagner) #

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Cape Code is so beautiful! Beautiful as in I've been there, I just didn't know it looked like that.