Picture of the day

Because we all need something nice to look at in these bleak times, in between our frantic searches of the want ads and brief, but increasingly logical sounding considerations of prostitution, Wired Science brings us...SPACE ISLANDS! Which is to say, pictures of islands shot from space. In case you were thinking this was a job you could do...you can't. We have astronauts on the International Space Station to take pictures for us, you just need to think up a funnier cardboard sign to hold while you panhandle on the street corner.

Alejandro Selkirk Island

Eleuthera Island

the Maldives

Atafu Atoll