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originally posted by: Glassbender777
1. I believe we went to the moon, considering even amateur astronomers can see what was left there, from the landings.
originally posted by: IwillbeHONEST
a reply to: pfishy
It's a composite.
www.independent.co.uk...
The new picture is a composite, of three separate images, but each of those images showed the whole planet. The camera takes ten images through the colour spectrum — going all the way from ultraviolent to infrared — and to make the new picture Nasa combined the red, green and blue pictures.
originally posted by: IwillbeHONEST
a reply to: NONPOINT21
Excellent post. What blew my mind at one time was that there's only one supposed photo of the entire earth and that supposedly came from Apollo 17 (of which I believe is fake as well). Most pictures are renderings or composites. Really? One freaking picture of earth and there's thousands of craft in geostationary orbit or beyond?
originally posted by: IwillbeHONEST
a reply to: pfishy
It's a composite.
www.independent.co.uk...
This is a colour filter that is bonded to the sensor substrate to allow colour to be recorded. The sensor on its own can only measure the number of light photons it collects. It has no way of determining the colour of those photons. As such, the sensor itself can only record in monochrome.
originally posted by: pfishy
But the EPIC image is a picture of the entire disc. Not several pictures of parts of it which were stitched together at the edges.
(emphasis mine)
...The new picture is a composite, of three separate images, but each of those images showed the whole planet.