Nasa Releases stunning Earth photo

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Is an 8000x8000 pixel breath taking image.
Get it here
 
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Fantastic image but it crippled my poor old PC
 
Not bad but not sure composition is quite right, maybe needs a little more contrast and fill in flash may have been over done. Good first attempt for this NASA guy though.;)
 
The day an alien spices finds this place (and I have my doubts they haven't) we are all doomed!
Compared to what's out there, our planet is simply beautiful.
 
Amazing.
 
I can't get over how thin our atmosphere is... and to think we are pumping it full of nasty chemicals. Humans uh? how much foolish can we get!
 
I cant see any trace of us in that picture though :thinking: I thought you'd be able to see grey areas of development or something tbh
 
Giles2373 said:
Not bad but not sure composition is quite right, maybe needs a little more contrast and fill in flash may have been over done. Good first attempt for this NASA guy though.;)
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:lol: Too central and not cloning-out the skytrails is just being lazy.

(Stunning image.)
 
Another wow. I'm as fascinated by the cloud formations (and the shadows) as the geography.
 
Wow
Can anyone point out where we are looking ?
Which countries ?
Sorry for being a bit (lot) dumb but what can you do ?:thinking:
 
The Main Thick leg in the middle is Mexico, the spindly Leg with the water in-between it and main land is the gulf of California. The Greeny/Bluey ocean area to the right is the gulf of Mexico.
Strange how you cant see any trace of "us" but maybe it was all removed similar to Google earth for Privacy or something? only guess since at the full 8k X 8k you can quite clearly see beaches etc you'd absolutely be able to see building etc
Cracking image! wonder who took it.. Optimus prime maybe.. I mean that camera would of been huge!!!! ;)
 
It's a nice picture of the Earth as a whole, but for detail, technically it's unremarkable for NASA. Yes, it's 8000x8000 but the file size is only 16.4mb. The most you can zoom in is around 200% before it starts to blur, long before you see any signs of cities, buildings or other features. For example, I can pinpoint the Grand Canyon, but there's absolutely no detail whatsoever of it apart from the Colorado River and the lakes.
 
Saw this via Flickr's official Twitter. It really is an amazing photo. Mind blowing almost. Human life is so unlikely and insignificantly small.
 
Giles2373 said:
Not bad but not sure composition is quite right, maybe needs a little more contrast and fill in flash may have been over done. Good first attempt for this NASA guy though.;)
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Did they get the horizon straight though? :)
 
Gonna need a bigger boat.......I mean Monitor


Nice:D


He does fine work doesn't He:thumbs:
 
MisterE said:
It's a nice picture of the Earth as a whole, but for detail, technically it's unremarkable for NASA. Yes, it's 8000x8000 but the file size is only 16.4mb. The most you can zoom in is around 200% before it starts to blur, long before you see any signs of cities, buildings or other features. For example, I can pinpoint the Grand Canyon, but there's absolutely no detail whatsoever of it apart from the Colorado River and the lakes.
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+1... It's an impressive image, but it lacks the detail... video shots from documentaries that show the thin blue line of the atmosphere have much bigger impact I think...
 
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aye, very good, but you should see the size of my new 70-200 :D
 
For the lazy ones.



A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin.

Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth.

Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS.

To read more about NASA's Suomi NPP go to: npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
 
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