Whats it like to see the South Pacific from space?
Story Musgrave: The South Pacific is probably the most beautiful place for me. I haven’t been there yet, but I’m going there soon. Just because you haven’t been there on the earth, doesn’t mean you can’t fall in love with a place from space. When you look at the earth, you have an experience just as powerful as being there. The beauty, the aesthetics, the different shades of blue, the coral atolls where a volcano has come up! The coral lives at a certain depth below the surface, the volcano sinks back down and it just leaves this kind of lagoon in the middle. The shades of blue, the green, and the beaches on both sides of these atolls! The beauty is extraordinary and you don’t see it so much your eyes or your head, as you perceive it in your abdomen. This goes on all the way from the Philippines to New Guinea and northeastern Australia, and all the way to Hawaii, one coral atoll after another. Extraordinary beauty, these big patterns before you. It is just a wonderful place in the worl
