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Russian satellite's 121-megapixel image of Earth is most detailed yet
- Nate75Sanders 15y agoThe one comment on the site is exactly the question that I want to know as well: Where can we download the full-size image?
- horv 15y agoAccording to this site http://planet--earth.ca/ http://planet--earth.ca/ (Go to Electro-L Images, then Image Gallery) the full image is too expensive to host and he's providing a torrent soon.
- gdubs 15y agoWould be a fun project, perhaps, to chop it up into tiles, host them on amazon s3, and use the CATiledLayer class to build an iOS viewer - or the equivellant in one's platform of choice.
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- nix 15y agoTitle is wrong. NASA's Blue Marble is about 3.7 gigapixels.
- sp332 15y agoBlue Marble is a compilation from several different instruments. The new "photograph" was taken with a single satellite all at once.
- mturmon 15y agoThe recently-released Blue Marble image was from several different overpasses (six to be exact) but only one instrument on one spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2159.html http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_21...
- sigmaxipi 15y agoWhat I find really peculiar is how the colors after composition and postprocessing are so different from the other images of Earth at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble It seems similar to the problem of determining the 'true' color of the Martian sky: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/spirit/a12_20040128.html http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/spirit/a12_20040128...
- DanBC 15y agoThey haven't adjusted these to be true colours - the article says the rust colour is an artefact from combining images from the infra-red and the other colour cameras.
- joshuahedlund 15y agoI'm still fascinated by how completely uninhabited most of the earth looks in the daytime from this distance. I honestly can't see any signs of civilization from a cursory glance at this image. Maybe I could if I knew what to look for; I'm curious what features you could see at 100% view on the full image.
- xbryanx 15y agoWhich is especially fascinating when comparing it to the Earth at night - http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpx http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.j...
- joshuahedlund 15y agoYes, that is why I specified daytime. I had not seen a full composite image, before, thanks. I find it interesting how uniform the lights look across the planet. I try to simultaneously remember how much we are affecting this planet and how little.
- xbryanx 15y agoRaw data if you're interested: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/downloadV4composites.html#AVSLCFC http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/downloadV4composites.html#AVSL...
- adavies42 15y agofun features: the nile, the trans-siberian railway, the island of south korea
- dennisgorelik 15y agoOn the video you can see how the Sun reflects from the Earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hdyRh60R-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hdyRh60R-Q
- sp332 15y ago"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.
- Rexxar 15y agoIt seems colour channels are not properly aligned. There are green/purple artefacts around clouds. The "aliens" snapshot, just show this : http://gigapan.com/gigapans/103187/snapshots/274815 http://gigapan.com/gigapans/103187/snapshots/274815
- indiecore 15y agoI can't source this or anything but I seem to recall someone mentioning that the extra green/purple is actually near infrared that is getting scattered back and interpreted by the camera for scientific purposes.
- rtkwe 15y agoCould also be chromatic aberrations too from poorly coated lenses. Edit1: Check out the edges of the world. Wonder what the issue there is?
- xefer 15y agoI only wish it were color corrected. It's hard to appreciate it when it looks so unnatural.
- benologist 15y agoIt's amazing how The Verge, CNET and Gizmodo all failed to add any value to this story, they just extracted it from the source site instead and each tossed in some links to their own trash. http://planet--earth.ca/ http://planet--earth.ca/
- jeffpersonified 15y agoWhere's 'Merica? This photo is biased.
- xbryanx 15y agoOriginal data from the Russians: Night Day animation - http://eng.ntsomz.ru/electro/el_061011 http://eng.ntsomz.ru/electro/el_061011
- K2h 15y agoGreat picture - be warned, does not include North America. First thing I wanted to do was see if I can see my house, and from what I can tell, I can't even see my country.
- TomGullen 15y agoOk can someone help me out here, I'm going to the zoom version of it here: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/103187 http://gigapan.com/gigapans/103187 But it seems, well, quite underwhelming? I zoom in a bit and it just goes low res very quickly. I was expecting to be able to go a lot deeper.
- SpiderX 15y agoIt's a single photo of the entire earth from space. 121 megapixels is good, but it's only 10x the 12 megapixel sensor of my current camera. It's good, but it's not Gigapixel good. However, it is the highest resolution single photo that contains the whole earth in it. You can find better ones that are stitched together, but none that are a single image from a single instance in time.
- KVFinn 15y agoI really want to a real time version of this as a Desktop. There are a million virtual Earths but there's something alluring about the idea of seeing a real time image of the planet.