Brain Connections from the Connectome project

Check out the project website.

NASA Black Marble Images of Earth

Check out the NASA Black Marble website.

UNICEF Photo of the Year

Girl in Cité Soleil, Port au Prince, Haiti by Alice Smeets

Check out a portfolio of winner on Spiegel Online!

Geological Image of the Earth

This amazing of the earth shorn of all its plants, topsoil, water and man-made structures is from OneGeology - a geological mapping project - via The Daily Mail.

Check out the Natural Hazard facet of the NASA Earth Observatory

Satellite image of the California wildfires and the smoke they generated,

Giant Panda Photos

Photos from Peoples Daily, a great site with many more photos.