Some refer to that change as the “ Overview Effect,” a term coined in 1987 by celebrated space writer Frank White to describe the mental shift astronauts experience when they consider the Earth as part of a larger whole. In doing so, all of them went through a change, not only in how they saw the planet but in their relationship to it. The astronauts - Chris Hadfield, Jerry Linenger, Nicole Stott, Mae Jemison, Leland Melvin, and Mike Massimino - have all had the rare opportunity to view our home planet from space.
Up there, where perspective is immeasurably wide, it’s impossible to miss the forest for the trees.
But in space, as six NASA astronauts tell Inverse, what you see isn’t necessarily what you envision. From your vantage point, 254 miles above Earth, even the colossal Kapok trees of the Amazon are reduced to a verdant swirl in a cat-eye marble.
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