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Space station astronaut captures breathtaking view of the edge of the Earth
- rasse 5y agoyup. flat.
- dylan604 5y agoclearly, that's distortion from the wide angle lens. put that into PS, hit the distortion correction button and whatch it pull back out straight.
- G79 5y agoYup, no blurring(!)
- optymizer 5y agoI thought that taking pictures in space will not show the stars in the background [0]. Is the light emitted from Earth not brighter than the stars? [0] https://www.discovery.com/science/apollo-50th-anniversary/why-aren-t-there-stars-in-the-moon-landing-photos- https://www.discovery.com/science/apollo-50th-anniversary/wh...
- gliptic 5y agoThis seems to be taken when the earth was in darkness. The lights are city lights.
- SamBam 5y agoThe subjects in that photo are significantly brighter than the small quantity of earth lights that can be seen in this photo, and so the photo on the moon would have used a much smaller aperture, for much less time. Further, this photo was taken with the intent of capturing those stars and gases, so the camera was deliberately allowed to capture more light with a longer exposure. As a result, while the stars and gases can be seen, most of the Earth lights that can be seen in this photo are blown out -- overexposed.
- junon 5y agoOh man the flat Earth idiots are going to flock to this thread in droves over that title alone.
- sandworm101 5y ago>> Expedition 66 is also notable because it will include two Russian civilians, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, who will launch on a Soyuz rocket on Oct. 5 to film scenes for a movie called The Challenge. Space tourism or a genuine a commercial venture in space? With today's film budgets, perhaps the next Marvel movie will involve such a trip.
- pc86 5y agoKind of gimmicky though, no? And I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way. Just that CGI/practical effects would almost certainly achieve the same end result and be a couple orders of magnitude cheaper (or five OOM...).
- DivestTrump 5y agoThe world just watched three billionaires make fools of themselves to establish space tourism and I'm sure Russia noticed. This is the director's second launch this year and I can't see the Russian film industry being able to recoup that kind of investment. He must have received approval from the highest ranks in Russia, if it wasn't their idea/bankroll to begin with. Innovative propagandists even if it does seem gimmicky.
- garblegarble 5y ago>The world just watched three billionaires make fools of themselves to establish space tourism At most two, surely - Branson and Bezos were rushing to get themselves (in their own untested launch systems) up to the Karman line and drop back down again. Although arguably only Bezos made a fool of himself by acting butt-hurt about flying after Branson. By contrast, Musk is launching paying customers into orbit on a proven rocket system that launches NASA astronauts to the ISS, same as Soyuz. If somebody's willing to pay for the launch and risk their lives, why wouldn't you let them? >and I'm sure Russia noticed Space tourism is hardly anything new for Russia - as far as I know, all space tourists who've flown to orbit so far have done so on Soyuz. I'm more upset that Roscosmos, in their rush to fly the film set to the ISS, endangered the station.
- tyleo 5y agoThe full photo stream is amazing. I recommend checking it out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thom_astro/page1 https://www.flickr.com/photos/thom_astro/page1
- megous 5y agohttps://megous.com/dl/tmp/95db6bfcfed8401f.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/95db6bfcfed8401f.png Look what I've found going through the pictures... Well protected Raspberry Pi in space. :)
- bee_rider 5y agoI wonder if the USB thingy is a detector of some sort. It seems must have some reason, to stick out of the armor like that.
- pseudosavant 5y agoI think it is a humidity sensor. From astro-pi.org: "Young people write a simple program to take a humidity reading onboard the International Space Station and communicate it to the astronauts with a personalised message, which will be displayed for 30 seconds!" https://astro-pi.org/mission-zero/ https://astro-pi.org/mission-zero/
- wiml 5y agoLooks like it's the AstroPi program: https://www.esa.int/Education/AstroPI https://www.esa.int/Education/AstroPI
- dylan604 5y agoI love how hodgepodge that looks. In most scifi, the space ships are all neat, tidy and super clean. Everything has a place. This looks like a hacker's workbench prototyping something, got it to work, shoved it in a case, and then runs the cat6 cable across the desk to get it running. Then just stuck to something to get it out of the way from the work space. Edit: realized i replied to the wrong comment. go up one level
- _Gyan_ 5y agoSee a video with similar setup of a rocket launch constructed out of a timelapse photo sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJy1u-N3NY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJy1u-N3NY0
- ed_db 5y agoSo you're saying there is an edge ? ;)
- number6 5y agoEarth sure looks pretty flat from space
- neogodless 5y agohttps://www.ck12.org/book/ck-12-middle-school-math-concepts-grade-7/section/10.2/ https://www.ck12.org/book/ck-12-middle-school-math-concepts-... > An edge is the place where two faces meet. Edges are straight; they cannot be curved. > Cones, spheres, and cylinders do not have any edges because they do not have any flat sides.
- dghf 5y agoCones and cylinders don't have any flat sides?
- dylan604 5y agoNo wonder US schools are so poorly rated. They get very basic stuff very wrong like this. 2+2=5 is probably in the previous chapter.
- junon 5y ago2.4 rounded is 2. 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, rounded is 5. Therefore, 2 + 2 = 5. I was taught this as a "mind teaser" in middle school once. It was supposed to be cute and fun, but just ended up confusing half the class.
- ggerules 5y agoThis is super cool! Thanks for posting!
- awb 5y agoUpvoting the post is sufficient. Comments should add value by creating discussion.
- p1mrx 5y agoRotated using the terrestrial definition of 'up': https://i.imgur.com/6mPGSEf.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/6mPGSEf.jpeg
- SamBam 5y agoFor some reason, I've always preferred photos of the planet from space when they are not shot with the earth "down below." I really get a sense of the weightlessness, and the feeling of traveling through space, if the Earth is to the side or at the top of the photo. Your rotation simply doesn't look as majestic to me. I guess it just feels like it was shot from an airplane, even though of course I know rationally it must be much higher.
- hulitu 5y agoEven MS Photos can rotate pictures.
- streamofdigits 5y agoIs that faint green line being mentioned the same green flash that one is supposed to see just after sunset (but which I have never managed to see?)
- db48x 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5pg843QhHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5pg843QhHc
- the-dude 5y agoIt is frkn' 2021 and I click the frkn' image to enlarge, only to get the same frkn' size but now modal. Why?