While you're down on earth snapping photos of your menial corgi or impossibly more menial sushi dinner, a grand celestial photography competition is shaping up in the skies. It's the aptly named Fourth Annual Top Image contest, in which satellites compete for the coveted title of "Best Digital Satellite Image," and this year's entries prove that machine may have a leg (or eight) up over man when it comes to photo skills. Check out some of this years entries.

While you're down on earth snapping photos of your menial corgi or impossibly more menial sushi dinner, a grand celestial photography competition is shaping up in the skies. It's the aptly named Fourth Annual Top Image Contest, in which satellites compete for the coveted title of "Best Digital Satellite Image," and this year's entries prove that machine may have a leg (or 8) up over man when it comes to photo skills.

The images are judged on Facebook likes and aesthetic titillation, but also their ability to showcase how satellite photography can help solve human issues from space. Word's still out on whether they can help solve this human vex:

We're privately judging them on whether or not they included our office in their lineup … mostly because we're concerned our intern quarters may be visible from above, but nevermind that …

Check out some of this years entries.