National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invited the planet to take part in a celebration of this year's Earth Day with the agency's GlobalSelfie campaign.
Participants were required to post their photos to social media platforms such as Twitter, and type #GlobalSelfie as a hashtag to bring the photo to NASA's attention, while NASA monitored photos posted on the various social platforms in an attempt to assemble the cellphone snapshots of human faces into a composite image of Earth.
"While NASA satellites constantly look at Earth from space, on Earth Day we're asking you to step outside and take a picture of yourself wherever you are on Earth as part of a worldwide celebration of Earth Day," was the request from the space agency.
For NASA, 2014 marks a year of discovery for our planet and the surrounding solar system. The agency has unveiled five missions designed to gather critical data about Earth as a part of the Earth Right Now campaign, to understand more about global warming and the build-up of greenhouse gases.
While satellite data helps NASA scientists piece together scientific information on Earth, the #GlobalSelfie campaign will create a different picture of the planet.
NASA says its mosaic image will be released in May along with a video using the images.
The event is social, but these selfies may also serve a promotional purpose.
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