overview effect

English

Etymology

Coined by Frank White in the 1980s, author of the 1987 book The Overview Effect — Space Exploration and Human Evolution, to describe the experience of astronauts when they see Earth from space. The first public use of the term was in a poster at a Space Studies Institute meeting in 1985.

Noun

overview effect (plural overview effects)

  1. The transcendental change of perception when one can view the Earth, or any other planetary object, within the universal context.

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