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Photo of Earth from one million miles away
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Agreed, part of me thinks shame there are billions of humans fucking it up.
Lovely Salsa
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Looks like neptune tbh
John Kowalski
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Not that geat to be honst. I've seen beter.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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Suing for using my pic without permission.
Barkley's Justice
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I see me!!
GraveHorizon
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This is great news. I like that something tangible is coming out of this.
If only we would fuck off already.
"The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."
What's the resolution of the original image? I sure can't see that level of detail with the image at the site.
What's the resolution of the original image? I sure can't see that level of detail with the image at the site.
There have been other real ones. Astronauts on Apolly 17 took this while they were on their way to the moon, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble
Walter White Walker
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There's a part there where it looks Photoshopped....like they're trying to hide something....
Firelord Chargrilled
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Satellites are fake
This is clever and I had to comment about it
It's the first pic from this specific satellite, not in general.
Pinko Marx
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YupYup, thats earth Alright
Frecklestein
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Aceofspades
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Picture would look the same from million miles away or one thousand ... The hell those scientist are smoking
Confrontation
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Okay?
geez you guys suck
this is like some louie ck bit material
a picture of our motherfucking PLANET TAKEN FROM SPACE 1 MILLION MILES AWAY
"ehhhhh bleh" *swipes phone*
From the OP:
what is this super green cloud above jamaica & friends?
oh
I added the bolding. Also at the end it sounds like they will be trying to filter some stuff later on. I don't know if that means the equivalent of photoshop color balancing or just combining the image differently or what.
It's probably unreasonable of me to think this, but I'm always a bit disappointed when planet or space photographs show up and they're renderings of what colors the human eye would probably see, etc. I wish there were some sort of ruggedized GoPro that could actually be taken into space or a planet and take some generic unfiltered earthling video.
It might be useless for science though.
-duskdoll-
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This made me laugh a lot more than it should have
what is this super green cloud above jamaica & friends?
oh
Shallow water.
Net_Wrecker
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The planet will be fine, we're just hurting ourselves.
Daniel Jackson
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How about 6 billion km
That tiny blue dot is us.
That tiny blue dot is us.
-duskdoll-
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bucknuticus
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There is no upside down in space!!!! SPAAAAACE
upside down? in space? wut
The images were taken with a 4MP camera.
The composite image on the website is 2048x2048.
That should be pretty close to the raw resolution of the camera, assuming a square CCD.
By comparison, a standard 3MP digital camera is going to be 2048x1536, though that aspect is due to our general desire for prints in that ratio versus a perfectly square image.
What is more impressive than the raw resolution is the lens on that thing. The clarity.
From the OP:
I added the bolding. Also at the end it sounds like they will be trying to filter some stuff later on. I don't know if that means the equivalent of photoshop color balancing or just combining the image differently or what.
It's probably unreasonable of me to think this, but I'm always a bit disappointed when planet or space photographs show up and they're renderings of what colors the human eye would probably see, etc. I wish there were some sort of ruggedized GoPro that could actually be taken into space or a planet and take some generic unfiltered earthling video.
It might be useless for science though.
You people suck at humor. (Or maybe Salsa does
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Vigilant Walrus
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I thought 1 million miles would be further away.
I feel better about listening to Procralimers 500 miles and Vanessa Carltons A Thousand miles now. Seems a lot more dooable than I thought.
The thing is, 1 km = 2,3 miles, so I forget how long miles are often.
I feel better about listening to Procralimers 500 miles and Vanessa Carltons A Thousand miles now. Seems a lot more dooable than I thought.
The thing is, 1 km = 2,3 miles, so I forget how long miles are often.
LoveCake
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How about 6 billion km
That tiny blue dot is us.
came to post this.
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Makes you think, how small we really are.
The most awe-inspiring photo ever taken of the planet. So insignificant in comparison to what else exists in the universe (hell, maybe even our own galaxy).How about 6 billion km
That tiny blue dot is us.
It is disappointing Nasa doesn't use the metric system for their press releases. At least they use it internally, as the rest of the civilized world does.
You people suck at humor. (Or maybe Salsa does
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in my? defense it was a real bad joke
GustyGardens
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Astonishing.
1KM = 0.62137119 miles
1 Mile = 1.609344 Kilometer
not sure where you got the 2.3 from, but it's totally understandable if you use KM to forget how long miles are.
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