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From the Columbia. It's nighttime descending over Europe.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/ ... guest.html

Looks beautiful...

That is beautiful.

Wow, that's one of the best Earth shots I've seen.

You go to Rush Limbaugh.com?

Why?

Nice photo.

Nice pic, and great for photoshopping. Just add an emblem of some nation or dictator into the middle of the dark area. Possibul with some arrows

Very pretty. Nice contrast aswell.

Further proof that Limbag is an idiot...

That's not a photo.

Enlightenment wrote:Further proof that Limbag is an idiot...

That's not a photo.

How so?

Shinova wrote:

Enlightenment wrote:Further proof that Limbag is an idiot...

That's not a photo.

How so?

Upon closer examination, I think he's right... There's the lights which are doubtful, then the snow... One has to doubt wtf the Colombia was doing over Africa... It probably wouldn't have been too hard to photoshop... Add a black layer, overlay mode, some lights...

It's a fake.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp

I thought as much, since that's not how Earth looks from space.

Vympel wrote:You go to Rush Limbaugh.com?

Why?

Nice photo.

I just saw a link to the image from another site and posted it here 'cause it looked cool.

oh, definitely a fake... subsea terrain features are typically not viewable in the visible spectrum to the degree seen in that image -- it looks surprisingly like the 'blue marble' earth terrain maps, which are composites of the entire planet, taken at different times to eliminate cloud cover, and in variying spectral ranges to accentuate desirable features. I have some pretty large full-planet bitmaps (day & night -- including lights) that Ive applied to make some pretty cool images in MAX. wanna see?

I thought it looked like a Photoshop job. Either that or someone was playing with XPlanet.

Kinda funky looking because of the editing, but it still looks kinda cool.

The complete lack of any cloud cover over the entire surface of the planet rang warning bells even before I saw the picture.

Raxmei wrote:The complete lack of any cloud cover over the entire surface of the planet rang warning bells even before I saw the picture.

*smashes head against a steel bulkead*


Gosh, why didn't I notice that...should've been blindingly obvious....

No cloud cover at all rang a bell for me, plus the image just looks too clean.

TrailerParkJawa wrote:No cloud cover at all rang a bell for me, plus the image just looks too clean.

The water looks odd too.

Shinova wrote:How so?

1. Europe is not cloudless at this time of year.

2. There are no lighting effects (highlights, shadowing, etc).

3. The terminator line (sunset) is has the wrong angle and radius for an orbital shot. The terminator is, however, right where one would expect for an image taken from a program written to show the ground track of the sunrise/sunset line.

4. Deep subsurface ocean details like the mid atlantic ridge are not visible from above.

5. STS-107 was in a 20-something degree orbit. This inclination is not high enough for Columbia to have passed over Europe to take this image from overhead.

6. NASA doesn't use films with a sufficiently wide dynamic range to capture both night and day details without washing or blacking out.


This is such an obvious fraud that I'm amazed anyone fell for it.

For comparison this is a real shot of a small chunk of Europe at sunset taken from STS-105:

One word : Fantastic!

Enlightenment wrote: 6. NASA doesn't use films with a sufficiently wide dynamic range to capture both night and day details without washing or blacking out.

I don't think such an imaging device with the required dynamic range exists other than the human eye (and that of most animals).

Edit: Double Posts suck.

Here's another thing. From Space, the shadow of the Earth never forms the Sine curve you see in that picture. It's always a curved line, since you can only see half of the planet at one time. If any of you have used LunarCell, you would see this fraud in an instant.

Here's an example: