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The last time anyone took a photograph from above low Earth orbit that showed an entire hemisphere (one side of a globe) was in 1972 during Apollo 17. NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites were designed to give a check-up of Earth’s health. By 2002, we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire Earth. So we did. The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earth’s surface with four months’ of satellite data. Reto Stockli, now at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, did much of this work. Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble.
Images of the earth may seem commonplace, but there are actually very few pictures of the entire planet. The problem, Simmon said, is all the NASA earth-observing satellites are in low-earth or geostationary orbit, meaning none of them are far enough away to see a full hemisphere. The most familiar pictures of the entire Earth are from the 1960s and 1970s Apollo missions to the moon.
originally posted by: Raggedyman
I am not a flat earther or saying anyone is
But this is a great thread, what I come to ats for
Thanks for bringing it to our attention
I cant see the fish eye thing being relevant how do you do that through a lens and not see more of the cockpit
And if it's just the fish eye window, why are they all in sync, they should all be different, showing different views?
What am I missing
originally posted by: Raggedyman
I am not a flat earther or saying anyone is
But this is a great thread, what I come to ats for
Thanks for bringing it to our attention
I cant see the fish eye thing being relevant how do you do that through a lens and not see more of the cockpit
And if it's just the fish eye window, why are they all in sync, they should all be different, showing different views?
What am I missing
originally posted by: WaxingGibbons
a reply to: moebius
What fish eye lense? What distortion? It's not even relevant at this point. This is all you need to know,
It either shows the whole Earth, which is impossible, and I agree it doesn't, or it shows only a portion of the Earth which means it is impossible that we see a sphere with space around it. Simple as that. Take your pick, it can only be a fake in both cases.
originally posted by: WaxingGibbons
a reply to: moebius
What fish eye lense? What distortion? It's not even relevant at this point. This is all you need to know,
It either shows the whole Earth, which is impossible, and I agree it doesn't, or it shows only a portion of the Earth which means it is impossible that we see a sphere with space around it. Simple as that. Take your pick, it can only be a fake in both cases.
originally posted by: chrismir
originally posted by: Raggedyman
I am not a flat earther or saying anyone is
But this is a great thread, what I come to ats for
Thanks for bringing it to our attention
I cant see the fish eye thing being relevant how do you do that through a lens and not see more of the cockpit
And if it's just the fish eye window, why are they all in sync, they should all be different, showing different views?
What am I missing
The camera is placed exactly centered, deep into the cockpit. In all directions the distortions are equal.
That is a GROSS oversimplification.
originally posted by: WaxingGibbons
a reply to: DrWily
That is a GROSS oversimplification.
Why do we see only a portion of the Earth and at the same time it looks like a sphere with space around it?
originally posted by: WaxingGibbons
a reply to: eriktheawful
The one I posted were taken from further inside, like I said, about 2 m back from the window, but it's not relevant at this point.
originally posted by: WaxingGibbons
So on this site you can see a pic from the cupola that shows lake Malawi. The lake is 580 km long. It is about one third of the shot. This means we are looking at 1700/1800 kms.
We should be seeing like I calculated earlier about 4700 km of the surface. The pic is obviously not zoomed in either.
www.issphotolibrary.com...
No matter how you look at these pics, they are fake, fake, fake.......
Okay... I'm trying really hard not to get frustrated with you, but you are pushing the limits.
originally posted by: WaxingGibbons
The only answer is that it cannot be a real pic.