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whats different between this and all the other pics of earth from various space devices
by seydor 7mo ago
whats different between this and all the other pics of earth from various space devices
- senko 7mo agoThis is the night side.
- Strom 7mo agoTaken by a different camera, from a different location, at a different time.
- layer8 7mo agoIt’s taken by a human on the way to the moon.
- hydrogen7800 7mo agoThat's enough for me. There was also much hype about a new blue marble picture, but I'm ok with that.
- Rebelgecko 7mo agoI saw someone point out on reddit that this probably the first digital picture of the whole earth (well, 1 side of it) taken by a person Apollo used film and it's been a long time since anyone has gone past LEO
- Forge36 7mo agoThere something amazing about that. Thanks for pointing it out!
- WalterBright 7mo agoHaven't any of the space probes taken such pictures as they left to wander through the solar system?
- CrimsonCape 7mo agoYes, if I recall correctly there was a Japanese high-res satellite sent to the moon which took images of earth on the way and then took "high def" images of the moon. That was 2007. So "high def" is like 1080i lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE#/media/File:Earth_at_11000_km.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE#/media/File:Earth_at_11...