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A View of Earth from Saturn
earthobservatory.nasa.gov — "Although the Earth Observatory typically reserves “Image of the Day” space for publishing data and images acquired by Earth-observing satellites, we are sometimes so enthralled by the spectacular images acquired by spacecraft observing other parts of the solar system that we want to share these 'otherworldy' views with our visitors."
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- thetanbark, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41Funny how something looking like that in a "regular" photograph would be considered a spec of dust and photoshopped out.
- doctorfungi, on 10/12/2007, -15/+125You mean it would have been manipulated using Adobe© Photoshop© Software?
- Eccohawk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25i think i missed the bulletin that made this funny or ironic. anyone care to point out what happened? did Adobe become anal about its copyrights or something?
- Asht0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Adobe_The_Photoshop_trademark_must_never_be_used_as_a_verb
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"""You mean it would have been manipulated using Adobe© Photoshop© Software?"""
Nah not necessarily - I don't know what Adobe are on about - "to photoshop" that's just a verb.
After all, isn't that just public knowledge? ;) ;) ;)
- maglob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Looks fake, the sign of a great photo
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15or the sign of a fake photo
but I agree with you, the best photos are those that look too good to be real - giid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You mean it looks photoshopped?
This comment has been specifically designed to attract Adobe sheeple. - BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"""You mean it looks photoshopped?"""
It may well have been photoshopped. I wonder what kind of software you'd use to photoshop something like that. GIMP probably, or that paint.net thing.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15or the sign of a fake photo
- VeryBoredNow, on 10/12/2007, -26/+5amazing...another dot.
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22yes, imagine...all the billions of people in this planet in a single dot.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2And they're all fighting to control it.
- blog4charity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Saturn looks really nice
- bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -9/+52Dont even get me started on Uranus
- naes341, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Everyone knows Uranus is a ***** place.
- SGagnon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Cool, I'm already using that photo as a background on my laptop and for those saying it's fake or "photoshop'ed", read this:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@sgagnon (#6414204)
You are correct, although the image is an "exaggerated color" image. The original, untouched, with some more details about the structures of Saturn, is here:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329 - JGILKS, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1LOL, all the nay sayers got owned. Bunch of losers :-D
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@sgagnon (#6414204)
- Hess10, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Someone should get all that water from the Messina Strait to that drought in West Africa.
- kashk5, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Anybody notice this interesting comment:
"Seen from more than a billion kilometers (almost a billion miles) away"
Surprising how they let that through when the rest of the article was scientifically sound- BigW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6FYI: 1 billion kilometers = 621 million miles
So yes, if the number of kilometers is over a billion, then rounding up for miles would be almost a billion. In fact 1 billion miles would be over 1.6 billion kilometers. So their statement was completely factually correct, if a bit fuzzy in the resolution of the numbers. - enicholas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Aside from being vague, what's wrong with that statement? If the actual distance was (say) 1.4 billion km, then it was both "more than a billion km" and "nearly a billion miles".
- BigW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6FYI: 1 billion kilometers = 621 million miles
- reticulate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Bring on the warp drives, science.
I need to see this with my own eyes. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We call it Saturn, but I just know that in some gigantic world, where one second lasts thousands of our years, some gigantic kid is just playing a record on a turntable.
I mean, look at those pictures... isn't it obvious what we're seeing?
OK Maybe it's a giant hard drive inside a gigantic computer that runs the galaxy as a program.- cyclingbum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's calculating the answer to the ultimate question.
- hughra, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2wow... that view is wonderful...
Amazing picture - Nedlog23, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3"All your base are belong to us"
- bumfish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
- F1R3DUP, on 10/12/2007, -69/+1I can't believe people actually believe this ***** is real. FAKE FAKE FAKE.
If you believe NASA uses tax payers' money to send probes into the far reaches of our galaxy then you are sadly mistaken. The money goes towards other things that they don't want you to know about. Wake up people.- TheInfamousOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Moron.
- fisharmor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6This is so utterly stupid it boggles my mind. Did you think about this before you accused them of claiming to have reached the far reches of our galaxy?
I don't know what planet you come from, but it seems to me like they voluntarily document spending several times more money on crap that they don't even bother to prove works.
I'm awake, paying attention, and doing something about it. Are you? - threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31I think your tin foil hat is a little tight around your temple.. I'd loosen it if I was you.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I agree with him! Wake up people! Do you really think their are probes on those billion dollar missiles they send into space?
LOL - slayersharpe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1amen brother!
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -11/+9I think I can see my house...
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8That's my house, not yours.
- jfranman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2That is truly an astonishing site. Unbelievable.
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Dupe. These same pics have been put on several other sites that have been dugg in the past (and made it to the front page):
http://digg.com/space/Best_photos_of_Saturn
http://digg.com/space/Most_amazing_image_of_Saturn_and_Earth_Ever
http://digg.com/space/Earth_View_from_Saturn- Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I hadn't seen the dupes so no problem for me that it comes to the front page again
- SpItFiRe3297, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2So, if you can see Earth from Saturn, why can't we see Saturn from Earth?
Before you bash me find a pic to prove it...- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://homepage.ntlworld.com/w.leslie/5planets.html
- reticulate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Dude, we've known about Saturn since prehistoric times.
Wouldn't this be a little difficult if we couldn't see the ***** thing? - SpItFiRe3297, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Well, I meant by just looking up at the sky without a telescope, god damn..
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Look at the sky without a telescope. You can see it if you know what to look for.
- tragicmuffin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1...What? If Earth is only a speck from Saturn, how do you know that you can't see, from Earth, the speck that is Saturn, when you obviously wouldn't know it if you did?
- Zoltair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9spitfire: Buy a pair of binoculars, Saturn is not that hard to see and the rings are visible in simple 10x50 binos..... Saturn is also one of the most photographed object by amateur astronomers because it is such an easy target.
check out.... http://www.ruppel.darkhorizons.org/planets.htm- dboy3587, on 10/12/2007, -3/+111x80 works better
- DivineMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Why do these topics always get crappy idiotic comments? Just shut the ***** up and enjoy the picture...
- liv3fr33ordi3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Cool. Any astronomers here care to explain in layman's terms how they know that is Earth?
- Infidelephant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Think about the great expanses of space and the absolute genius it takes to get "the camera" out there to begin with. When they originally shot it out there, they weren't aiming AT Saturn, they were aiming where they knew Saturn was GOING to be when it got there.
If they are able to do that, they should have no problem knowing where in the system the planet "the camera" came from, and where it would be when the picture was shot.
...in layman's terms.
- Infidelephant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Think about the great expanses of space and the absolute genius it takes to get "the camera" out there to begin with. When they originally shot it out there, they weren't aiming AT Saturn, they were aiming where they knew Saturn was GOING to be when it got there.
- dboy3587, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Hey its my house!
- ASSASSYN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Earth sucks I am going to Saturn.
- dankvwguy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0this picture is so old is not even funny...great picture none the less but bury this old news
- manbear, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2can anyone explain to me why it looks like the rings don't go all the way around it?
- alskdjfh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Parts of the ring are in saturn's shadow.
- jgerland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2A peaceful place or so it looks from space,
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace
Is the human face,
But afraid we may lay our home to waste.
John Perry Barlow "Throwing Stones"- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice poem, Yoda. "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Marry not, young Jedi."
- ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It sucks when you think about having to share the same couple of pixels with every douchebag on Earth.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12yeah, like you.
- JAG731, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Puts our "everyday" problems into perspective, huh?
- cyphin6, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Wow once you take in the distance that is, it really is amazing, that were just a "dot" here, yet humanity is the center of the universe, and earth was made in 6 days.
- Cornedbeef, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Where is the "You are here" sign.
- wbtn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Original NASA photograph
http://img24.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=58979_Top_Secret_122_710lo.jpg - OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24**************************************************************************************
Just in case the site goes down below is the view of Earth from Saturn:
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. - OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Any Questions?
- terriblelie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome pic. Perfect for a widescreen background. :)
- freakgd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4DAMM son.
- edlowe0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3i can see my house from here...
- seanfrank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've had this picture on my desktop for months and I eventually photo-shopped out the dot because I'm OCD and it was driving me crazy. I had no idea it was earth, I would have left it! I love this picture.
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