NASA Releases Amazing 64-MP 8000x8000 Photo of Earth

[Guest]

North America looks like a deserted wasteland. Would it kill you people to plant a few trees?

 

[jwcalla]

[citation][nom]edvinasm[/nom]If the whole world was as heavy on resources as US we would need 5 Earths to survive. Fact. Not sure about China, since they don't even publish proper data.[/citation]

oh boo hoo

 

[Guest]

It is not real image. I see aliased pixels on the globe edge.

No real photo looks like that!

 

[Guest]

I thought that the world was not round

 

[Guest]

Carl Sagan would be proud....

We are in fact, looking at the "only home we've ever known", so stop complaining about inconsequential details or your supposed knowledge you've gained about resource usage through word of mouth and paranoid websites. Be grateful we are still here and we get to see the marvels of technology in our lifetime, for just a few hundred years we thought this was flat.

 

[mrmaia]

Gorgeous.

including Blue Marble 2002, which many will recognize as the oh-so-familiar iPhone lock image.

Sue Apple's ass off, NASA! lol

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Even from space, you can't see any thing that we have built...We are so arrogant to think that we are the rulers of this world..."The planet is fine, the people are fu*ked"George Carlin.[/citation]
no one individual object, but if you know were to look, you can see civilization.

would love to see this at night.

[citation][nom]Netherscourge[/nom]Amazing!Also, LOL at my work PC coming to a crawl while trying to load that image LOL[/citation]

yea, my p4 hat trouble with more than a few images, but they were in the 11k pixel range and tif images.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]Asia is the world's biggest Continent[/citation]
Only because maps stretch it, check out square mileage stats from Wiki

 

[lp231]

[citation][nom]Specter0420[/nom]Can we get some 16x9 and 16x10 sizes? I can do it just not at work. It looks oval on my screen.[/citation]
Then your monitor is stupid. 😛

 

[Guest]

First photo of the earth taken from space was by Apollo 8 in 1968.

 

[amdfreak]

full size pic 8000 x 8000 is truly amazing. Wow.

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]jonpaul37[/nom]I wonder what that same picture must have looked like 500 years ago, was probably alot more green.[/citation]
500 yrs ago was still in the little ice age... This was taken in January. Would have been more white snow, if anything was different at all...

 

[tlmck]

Cool, but how much did it cost me in tax money.

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]tlmck[/nom]Cool, but how much did it cost me in tax money.[/citation]
With each megapixel, the price is reduced exponentially... So a 65 megapixel image is only $1000 or so per megapixel. When this satellite takes more photos, the price goes down and down....

 

[hetneo]

[citation][nom]edvinasm[/nom]If the whole world was as heavy on resources as US we would need 5 Earths to survive. Fact. Not sure about China, since they don't even publish proper data.

[citation][nom]kawininjazx[/nom]China consumes resources like it's going out of style, plus they have much more lenient environmental laws, so they pollute way worse than the US.[/citation]

Yep, China is the biggest polluter. Back in 2006 before Olympic games they have shut down all factories around Beijing and banned motorized traffic for 2 whole weeks, seeded clouds for rain and visibility was still worse than in any North American city.

 

[warezme]

"...which many will recognize as the oh-so-familiar iPhone lock image."
I'm surprised Apple hasn't tried to patent that yet.

 

[peterson99]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Only because maps stretch it, check out square mileage stats from Wiki[/citation]
[citation][nom]lp231[/nom]Then your monitor is stupid.[/citation]

lol I'm not sure who taught you geography
http/www.wereyouwondering.com/what-is-the-biggest-continent-in-the-world/

Asia is the largest, and Africa is the second largest. (Wiki agrees, you must have read it wrong?)

 

[JohnnyLucky]

WOW! Amazing image. You gotta see it on a 30 inch monitor set up for professional photography.

 

[doive1231]

Now can we all try and get along and be nice to each other.

 

[wild9]

Super-impose upon that image, man's foot-print. Show the growth of urban sprawl, the deforestation; the destruction water tables and the exodus from down-town areas. Show the projected growth mostly as a result of immigration. You don't see these things until it's time to middle-class America, including those of European descent.