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Comment: Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo (Score 1) 203

by Geheimagent (#35675696) Attached to: Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's

One obvious difference - in the NASA image, clouds have no shadow, in the russian one they do. That makes the NASA image look flat, and the russian one jump out in 3D. Why that is, I'm not sure.

The Russian image is taken at the day-night border, where the sunlight comes from the side, while the NASA image is taken around noon. The shadows make the landscape much more visible. Spy satellite images are often taken in the morning or late afternoon for the same reason.

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