Beautiful image!

Thanks for posting!

Thank you for the posting.

I couldn't agree more..very impressive.

WOW WOW WOW WOW! nd is that picture ever impressive phage! i cant any words outide of beutiful to describe that photo! this is such a positive find man...
I did notice what appears to be possible con or chemtrails??? Look at BAHA and souther california..then look left(west of it) in that immediate weatehr system their, in the middle, yuo can visibly see what appears to be exahust fumes, if i can call it that, form plens? They make lines over eachother! whats anyones input on that?

anyone else notice the chem trails in the clouds west of california? I dont see them elsewhere...

heavy air traffic?

Shouldn't you be able to see at least one satellite if we are looking at half of the Earth?

It must be high enough to capture a satellite or ISS or space junk ect. if it's high enough to capture the whole Earth.

No?

Originally posted by breakingdradles
Shouldn't you be able to see at least one satellite if we are looking at half of the Earth?

It must be high enough to capture a satellite or ISS or space junk ect. if it's high enough to capture the whole Earth.

No?

You would think!
Maybe they can put one up that does'nt have the background blacked out and is'nt an indexed GIF.

Originally posted by ShadowLink
You would think!
Maybe they can put one up that does'nt have the background blacked out and is'nt an indexed GIF.

The background is blacked out because they want to avoid a repeat of this:



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amazing image. isnt our planet just beautiful?

someone please tell me why its in grey scale. I am sick of these grey scale images of mars, moon and now the earth.

Why strip the color out of these images?

The level of detail is wonderous!

Thanks Phage!

Originally posted by epete22
someone please tell me why its in grey scale. I am sick of these grey scale images of mars, moon and now the earth.

Why strip the color out of these images?

I don't know about the GEOS images, but for the Mars images they do not "strip" the color from them -- the raw pictures from Mars are all in greyscale. The colors are added later after the image is received here on Earth.

The Mars rover digital camera (and all digital cameras -- including yours) are basically "colorblind". The camera cannot distinguish colors they way we distinguish colors. Instead each image is captured through a series of filters that produces greyscale images. Different colors seen through different filters produce different intensities of "grey". The camera's computer then assigns a color to these intensities of "grey", thus creating an "approximate true color" image.

Your camera does all this before showing you the "color" image. However, the imaging scientists who are working with the Mars images would rather receive the raw greyscale pictures because more science can be done with these series of pictures viewed through different filters (and thus separated into different wavelengths of light). These raw, separated wavelength greyscale images are valuable to the scientists.

So, each approximate true color image you see of Mars is actually created by using a series of greyscale images take through the different filters, and then a computer translates the grayscales into approximate colors.


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Phage,

Great picture. I was wondering if this is a single image or a mosaic of several images. I was looking for this info on the GEOS website, but I couldn't find it.

I suppose being 23,000 miles away, a single image should be able to capture the entire 8,000 mile diameter of Earth, but I wasn't sure. Do you know this?