NASA releases stunning 64-megapixel photo of Earth - Polidicks

I feel so tiny.

[QUOTE=Tolyzor;34398693]Yep, this isn't a real photo. It is a collection of real photos rendered onto a sphere. See pic below; there is aliasing on the edge of the earth; real photos don't have aliasing like this because CCDs sample average light for each pixel, not point sources. [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/aliasing.jpg/][IMG]http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7117/aliasing.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I can't help feeling the atmosphere looks a bit fake too; compare it with the original blue marble: [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg[/url] I remember hearing the analogy that, to scale, the Earth's atmosphere is about as thick as the layer of varnish on a standard classroom globe.[/QUOTE] Yes!

[I]And then they saved it as a JPEG[/I] good job NASA

I think I just found a new wallpaper for my iPad.

[QUOTE=tomatmann;34399010]Yes![/QUOTE] The article said it wasn't (properly speaking) but in order to deliver such high quality they had to stitch a bunch of photos together, and it's cool, because the point is that they're trying to show us how it looks from space, and I think the picture is quite amazing.

[QUOTE=BCell;34397760]Is 90% of the United States of America covered in desert? From the looks of the picture, it looks like the USA is a desert wasteland.[/QUOTE] You do realize these were taken during winter, when green doesn't really flourish, right?

[QUOTE=Tolyzor;34398693]Yep, this isn't a real photo. It is a collection of real photos rendered onto a sphere. See pic below; there is aliasing on the edge of the earth; real photos don't have aliasing like this because CCDs sample average light for each pixel, not point sources. [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/aliasing.jpg/][IMG]http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7117/aliasing.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I can't help feeling the atmosphere looks a bit fake too; compare it with the original blue marble: [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg[/url] I remember hearing the analogy that, to scale, the Earth's atmosphere is about as thick as the layer of varnish on a standard classroom globe.[/QUOTE] You can also get that when scaling down an extremely large photo (64 megapixels anyone).

[QUOTE=Tolyzor;34398693]Yep, this isn't a real photo. It is a collection of real photos rendered onto a sphere. See pic below; there is aliasing on the edge of the earth; real photos don't have aliasing like this because CCDs sample average light for each pixel, not point sources. [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/aliasing.jpg/][IMG]http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7117/aliasing.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I can't help feeling the atmosphere looks a bit fake too; compare it with the original blue marble: [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg[/url] I remember hearing the analogy that, to scale, the Earth's atmosphere is about as thick as the layer of varnish on a standard classroom globe.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of some mid 90's video game graphics. Kind of reminds me of Starfox 64 actually.

[QUOTE=faze;34401672]Reminds me of some mid 90's video game graphics. Kind of reminds me of Starfox 64 actually.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of... Anything on a console.

It was a composite of multiple images arranged over a 3d model of a sphere, not a full photo of Earth.

[QUOTE=dead.pixel;34401603]You can also get that when scaling down an extremely large photo (64 megapixels anyone).[/QUOTE] Unless you use something like a point interpolation, no.

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I think I found where I am. Though its still pretty hard to see from artifacts and pixelation. It would be awesome if they uploaded an uncompressed version.

[QUOTE=tomatmann;34393181]That's not earth, thats The United States of America.[/QUOTE] We annexed Cuba, Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, and Ecuador? [QUOTE=Paramud;34393322]The U.S. is apparently incredibly brown.[/QUOTE] Holy shit people, seasons. It isn't green during late fall/winter/early spring.

[QUOTE=Regulas021;34467741]We annexed Cuba, Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, and Ecuador?[/QUOTE] um yeah where were you

Guys realize that's just the bottom half of the US, aka the brown part.

real life needs to turn up its AA

Holy shit I tried opening it in an image editor and my shitty laptop was struggling It's glorious!

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

The proportions are all wrong. America doesn't take up a whole hemisphere.

All of our society, everything we stand for, all the various emotions and life as we know it all stranded on a rock where we can barely be seen on the surface of.

My iPhone can do that shit too.

[QUOTE=lifehole;34474788]All of our society, everything we stand for, all the various emotions and life as we know it all stranded on a rock where we can barely be seen on the surface of.[/QUOTE] No true, it's just that this is further away, if it was closer you could see more signs of humanity

And this is how earth looked back in 2001... [img]http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/57000/57723/globe_west_540.jpg[/img]

yeah something is definetly strange here

[QUOTE=rnd;34477817]And this is how earth looked back in 2001... [img]http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/57000/57723/globe_west_540.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] That picture was taken ten years ago, there has been a lot of improvement since then. Plus I think that 2001 picture is just one photograph from one satellite while the new one is a combination of several photographs. Also higher res.

Hope we get a nicer one in the Summer. Winter is ugly.

[QUOTE=Sickle;34394993][B]North American[/B] Space Agency. I'm sure that's why it's 'obviously' a picture of the US. I wanna see Africa and Europe at night.[/QUOTE] You LIVE in the US, and you don't know what NASA stands for...

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;34478180]That picture was taken ten years ago, there has been a lot of improvement since then. Plus I think that 2001 picture is just one photograph from one satellite while the new one is a combination of several photographs. Also higher res.[/QUOTE] But, look how all those green areas disappeared in ten years.

damn