Whole Earth images, Does any satellite provide regularly updated ones? |
Whole Earth images, Does any satellite provide regularly updated ones? |
Oct 9 2007, 04:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Great resource, Steve! Images I hadn't seen before. I only browsed the few images from the Apollo set, but it looks like a gem.
Sadly, the highest resolution versions have too high a compression ratio set and the scans turn weirdly green. I tried to remove the green background. Two nice Apollo 8 shots, reduced in size: I'm a sucker for those thru-the-window shots or, in general, views which show objects of recognizable size with which a human can relate. Apollo 10 Earthrise, always an awesome sight. So they say... -------------------- |
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Oct 9 2007, 07:59 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: 4-June 07 From: United Kingdom Member No.: 2288 |
Hi - there are a few images collected by NASA at this link: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/Phot...l?set=EarthDisc Cripes. Thanks scalbers. I found that site ages ago. The highest resolution images of this type I've come across before. Complete with views of the Earth taken out of the Apollo mission ports that I did'nt know about. I then lost the address and no one seemed to know what site I was talking about . So you get some thanks from my friends . MouseOnMars -------------------- |
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Oct 10 2007, 07:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
-------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Oct 10 2007, 09:12 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Those new Twin Blue Marble images are just spectacularly beautiful, thanks for the link.
Truly an oasis in the dark ocean of space... -------------------- |
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Oct 10 2007, 10:01 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Those new Twin Blue Marble images are just spectacularly beautiful, thanks for the link. Truly an oasis in the dark ocean of space... Yes they are Stu!...Thank you all! All the provided links are true treasures...don't know why, maybe because I had dinner at an indian restaurant nearby, I became all mystical looking at those images and thinking about all the solid ground I have covered with my own feet in this incredbly small and fragile parcel of the Universe...Man!...How priviliged are we?!... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Oct 22 2007, 08:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Here's a side-by-side comparison of 3 crescent Earth shots at a similar phase angle. They were all tweaked from what is officially available to make ocean color more similar to each other. From left to right: Kaguya, MESSENGER and Apollo 4. North is up only in Kaguya's image.
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Nov 23 2007, 05:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 140 Joined: 20-November 07 Member No.: 3967 |
Here is another way to see -- and think about -- the whole globe: with a map, of course. Some of the above posts have been map-like.
This is a constant-scale natural boundary world map of Earth. Its boundary is a portion, the Atlantic Ocean portion, of the mid-ocean ridge. You might, if you want, follow along with what I learn is called "the Wilson cycle": where the spreading apart of the Atlantic Ocean floor will eventually push closed the Pacific Ocean. That idea, I also hear, is a lot of simplistic, anthropomorphic bunkum. I don't mean to take sides in any argument here, just to point out that with a little ingenuity world maps may be fashioned to illustrate ideas global in scope. Something meant to address climate change, to reveal large scale patterns in meteorology, a CSNB world map edged by continental divides, for example, would look entirely different. I'm new around here, and have only recently looked through the "new" rules. It's hard to imagine how this string of posts relates to unmanned space flight. But given the drift of this conversation, I just wanted to add this to the discussion of whole earth views of ther globe. |
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Nov 25 2007, 06:49 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 25-June 07 From: United States Member No.: 2537 |
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Nov 25 2007, 05:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Cool picture, n1ckdrake! Which source/mission? Apollo?
Herebelow an improved crop I made (in particular, color/contrast adjust and sharpening)... I think is a perfect wallpaper! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Nov 25 2007, 06:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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Nov 25 2007, 08:00 PM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
oeee is that a Kelvin wave? Cool!
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Nov 26 2007, 03:27 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 25-June 07 From: United States Member No.: 2537 |
The photo of the Earth is from the Apollo 10 mission, taken at a distance of 100,000 nautical miles. Here is the link to the Apollo 10 Earth Photo
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Nov 26 2007, 04:10 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 25-June 07 From: United States Member No.: 2537 |
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Nov 26 2007, 05:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
The photo of the Earth is from the Apollo 10 mission, taken at a distance of 100,000 nautical miles. I knew it had to be from one of three missions -- Apollos 10, 11 or 15 -- due to the amount of the North Pole illuminated by the Sun. Since we appeared to be further from solstice than July, my best guess was Apollo 10 (which, of course, flew in May). Nice to see I was right! -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Nov 26 2007, 05:20 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
This image is from the Apollo 16 mission. This view is almost identical to the view televised from Apollo 16 immediately after transposition and docking, which was by far the best image of global Earth ever transmitted via television from an Apollo spacecraft. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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