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I believe that one of the reasons that it looks strange to us is that the image is captured using a "push broom scanner," where the satellite captures one line
by bahro 11y ago
I believe that one of the reasons that it looks strange to us is that the image is captured using a "push broom scanner," where the satellite captures one line of the image at a time as it flies above the Earth, so the usual rules of perspective do not apply. The image is the same geographical width at the bottom as is it at the top.
- 4ad 11y agoAlso known as isometric projection. Although, because the telescope has a such a small field of view, perspective projection would give virtually the same image.
- acjohnson55 11y agoRight. It seems like it's essentially an object-space telecentric view (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecentric_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecentric_lens).