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News & ArtsThursday, January 26, 2012
Science "The Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever"
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:14 AM
As the world turns:
- NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
I love most the blue of the atmosphere. It is almost the halo of life.
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Very cool. Are there any other angles available? I wanna know if you can really see the Great Wall from space.
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Proportions are screwy. It's Apollo 17's Blue Marble photo meets "The World As Seen From New York's 9th Avenue."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en…
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NASA photography is usually black and white, and they colorize it later. Is that the case with something like this, or do they use a different sort of camera when it's a photo taken so close to us?
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Something's really fucked-up with that picture. It makes it look like America takes up the whole world.
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Ok, I was wrong about it being one snapshot, it is a composite image, but I was right about it being taken from a near earth orbit, which is why it looks so fisheyed.
http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission_details…
http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission_details…
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Oh right @2. I forgot that for some shut-ins it's preferable to use the machine than to ask questions of another human being. I don't have that particular problem, and since you've got nothing else to do, can you see if your device can find other HD earth photos from other angles? Ta.
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@12 5280 I sure do. I have all sort of evergreens right out my window. Green is all I see. I'm lucky.
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Beautiful, thx, You reminded me of this campaign.
"In 1966, a visionary college student named Stewart Brand created and sold buttons which read, " Why Haven't We Seen A Photograph of the Whole Earth Yet?" Apparently Brand's 'Photograph of the Whole Earth ' Campaign played a role in spurring NASA to procure high-quality photos of the planet from distant space."
"In 1966, a visionary college student named Stewart Brand created and sold buttons which read, " Why Haven't We Seen A Photograph of the Whole Earth Yet?" Apparently Brand's 'Photograph of the Whole Earth ' Campaign played a role in spurring NASA to procure high-quality photos of the planet from distant space."
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@ 9, well, I suppose you could look in a lump of milled wood mash (what some call a "book") instead.
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This link provides a summary of how one of the earlier blue-marble composites was made. It is nothing like the Apollo 17 *photograph.*
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/e…
Lets be clear that the blue marble imagery that's everywhere today is an ARTISTIC VISUALIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC DATA, not a photograph. It's still super-cool though.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/e…
Lets be clear that the blue marble imagery that's everywhere today is an ARTISTIC VISUALIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC DATA, not a photograph. It's still super-cool though.
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by the laws of fisheye fysics, isn't it mexico that is actually the most exaggerated in this photo? north america less so. leading to the conclusing...north america really is kinda big.
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