BlueMarble, new photos of Earth from NASA 26
descapa writes: "I just saw this site called BlueMarble that is brought to us by NASA. It has some new _very_ nice pics of Earth, check out the east hemisphere or the west hemisphere. Now I just need a bigger screen."
One missing feature (Score:3, Funny)
Smog? (Score:2)
Re:Smog? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Smog? (Score:2, Informative)
you say west hemisphere (Score:1)
Re:Sorry (Score:1)
And I suppose you have learn my lenguage, too.
May be some day we cant say 'us and them'.
Re:you say west hemisphere (Score:3, Informative)
Theres animations too.. (Score:4, Informative)
visible from space? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:visible from space? (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/great.wall.
From the journal _Science News_, December 24 & 31, 1994, volume 146, nos. 26 & 27, pages 417-448, in the article entitled *Earthmovers: Humans take their place alongside wind, water, and ice*, pp 432-433, we have, cited under fair use or whatever it is:
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Twenty-five years after his historic moonwalk, Buzz Aldrin wants to put to rest a nagging myth. For the record, Apollo astronauts could not see the Great Wall of China or other evidence of human existence from a distance of 400,000 kilometers. "That's a misconception. Journalists have fallen into that trap just to be sensationalistic," he decries.
If truth be told, Aldrin didn't spend much time peering homeward or cogitating his place in the cosmos. "The human astronaut is not able to look for the Great Wall on Earth. He's not able to philosophize on the meaning of life. He's focused on his job in front of him, which is not tripping over the television cable."
From their vantage point only a few hundred kilometers above Earth's surface, astronauts aboard the space shuttle can easily make out *Homo Sapiens'* handiwork. Urban sprawl, ribbons of roads, quilted cropland, razed patches of forest, and some national boundries show up. Yes, even the Great Wall stands out amid the Chinese countryside when the sun hits it just right.
"We do clearly see ways in which human beings are changing the surface of the planet," says shuttle asronaut Jeffrey Hoffman.
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Re:visible from space? (Score:2)
While the western hemesphere has New England under clouds, you can clearly make out the Miami to West Palm Beach sprawling cityscape on the east coast of Florida, located to the southeast of Lake Okeechobee (the big lake in the middle of the state).
Florida, incidently, is the north-south peninsula located at the southeast corner of North America.
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Evan
Clouds (Score:1)
...you know I really would have like to see my house from space.
Hey! (Score:1)
Ooh :) (Score:1)
Nice (Score:1)
Pretty cool! It's always nice to be reminded that we're merely on a big rock hurling through space and how seemingly fragile our planet is. It's also nice to see a map without national or other man made borders on it.
Where's my country? (Score:1)
Not only are we a large country, we're a bloody continent as well!
Not happy, the least they could have done was take 3-4 pics.
Oh well. Guess we're not important enough, as usual
Re:Where's my country? (Score:1)
Re:Where's my country? (Score:1)
I can't see NZ?
What images are you guys looking at?
Re:Where's my country? (Score:1)
ah don't tell me... (Score:3, Funny)
Surely not...
T
Al Gore (Score:1)
But seriously, didn't he promote the idea of an "earth observatory"? That would have been a much better waste of money than the astronomical military budget IMHO
Re:Al Gore (Score:2, Informative)
The Earth Observatory [nasa.gov] started as a collaboration between a few outreach specialists (government speak for a combination of marketing and education) and our scientist bosses to make NASA Earth science more available to the public, since NASA has A LOT of very interesting data that's almost impossible to get at.