World Press Photo of the year

Isn't this just appalling or is it a staged photo? I presume to win somthing like this it would have to be authenticated in some way.

NASA 's Earth Observatory

This is one of my favourite web sites.
This site is a great resource for the teaching of Science, Geography, Meteorology, etc. It has an amazing range of photos taken from space and they are available at high resolution which means that you can print them out especially if you have a good colour laser printer. There is information with each image which you can edit and combine with the images to make an excellent classroom display.