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- gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50Never ceases to amaze me how beat up the shuttle looks. It seriously looks like the millennium falcon in that respect. Many discolorings, parts that look water logged,a general 'we didn't have same part for that so I used some other part just as good', and an over all 'used' factor to it.
- dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Now, now. Remember that the Millenium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs! Nothing to sneeze it at, Greedo!
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Maybe Hires is the indian fellow that took the picture...
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22enough bickering...let us all agree: beat up space ***** look cool.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27From now on, all posts that contain "hi-res" must be atleast that resolution.
- bluenash, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20cool pic thanks...gives me the heebie jeebies looking at it tho..
- warox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18That's what yourmom said last night. HEYOHH!
- SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"Never ceases to amaze me how beat up the shuttle looks."
Let's see how you look after re-entering Earth's atmosphere 31 times. - Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12...maybe it's because they are in an insta-death vacuum and Earth is a round ball below?
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19Where does it say "hi-res"? It says HUGE IMAGE.
- Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11and it looks like they are taking a picture of the ISS, if you look close they are holding a camera.
HAHA, a camera taking a picture of another camera! - UtterNoncesense, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"A parsec is a measure of distance not time...."
Correct, but as a Star Wars geek, I must point out that it does actually make sense - Han was bragging about how close he had gotten to the black holes (shortening his route), and therefore how fast he had to be going to not get dragged in. - XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+113032x2064 1.2Mb, not that big, and loaded really fast...
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Um, you're kidding, right? It looks a whole heck of a lot less rickety than the Apollo lander: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a14/AS14-66-9254HR.jpg
And the lunar lander doesn't ever reenter the atmosphere... - FcukDt7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Um, you're kidding, right? It looks a whole heck of a lot less rickety than the Apollo lander: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a14/AS14-66-9254HR.jpg"
Wow, looks like a Blue Peter project. - wolfzombie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8So I wonder whose arm that is in the windshield?
- erikjernberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It may not be HUGE.. but it is very big. The image is approximately 3000x2000 which, for my money, is appreciated. I also love the fact that DIGG users appreciate a high-res image, and are probably as sick of low-res 400-500px image galleries as I am. I see items about large images promoted to the homepage a lot - which is awesome.
Honestly I have wondered where all the high-res space photos are. It seems like everything Man puts into space gets equipped with the finest type of camera available at that time. And thats how it should be. But then we never see the photos, or we go to space.com or msnbc.com and get a "no thank you" 300px image as part of a gallery tour. I found this site: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html which has some good pics occasionally. But this image of the shuttle is awesome. Thanks for posting it. - RedWolves, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@interiot
I was watching this live on NASA TV when it performed this back flip for photography by the ISS crew...the commentator then said they were over Spain at the time.
You can watch the video here http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html
Scroll down to the Space Shuttle Pitch Maneuver Video - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Look, theyre still in kansas
- dcipjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Unlike the shuttle, though, the LEM never had to fly in an atmosphere. You don't need fancy wings or heat shields or sleek aerodynamic design for a vehicle that flies only in space. When you're trying to land on the moon, function is definitely more important than form.
- AZTriGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Don't forget about the bird-poop on the wing.
- LeftistPersona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6it's only gone a 1/3 of it's operational life too (32/100 launches)...
I wish my monitor were big enough to have that as my background without shrinking it...
the apollo lander didn't have to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, only had to land on the moon's surface and then rocket up to the Apollo command module. - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6very nice. I'm glad they had enough light to keep the background in focus too.
- caball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Below is a link to the main page for shuttle pictures on the same site, there are a ton of cool pictures! Dugg!
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/ - yatpay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5everyone makes fun of how rickety the lunar module (the lander) looked, and rightfully so. but when you don't have any atmosphere to deal with, a whole lot of problems go away. you can get away with using foil as a wall in certain places, and not being aerodynamic in the least.
the shuttle looks so beat up because it's used again and again - NinjaJedi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5me too.... it also made me feel dizzy!! A touch of vertigo, perhaps?
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Amazing we can get something that big up that high.
- RapidEye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Makes you almost feel like you are there - stunning quality!!!
- DeathStrawberry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But you're not in space, now are you?
- RedWolves, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Spain...if you read the comments earlier you would of seen I already stated that...please send $10 immediately
- romulusnr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3farms, in a mountainous area, there are also a couple rivers cutting through.
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10That'll be one of the crew.
- Src1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Remember that this thing just shot through 20 miles of air in nine minutes.
I'm sure it also picks up a lot of dust and bugs and ***** on the way up. It's not like they've had a chance to run it through the car wash since then. - x2arden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I believe the Shuttle directly over and obscuring Casas de Don Pedro, in central Spain. The town just below the starboard (right) wing is Talamubias, Spain.
- forevernoob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If it gives you vertigo, then save the image, open it up in Irfanview or something and rotate the image 180 degrees. There! No more vertigo! ;)
- SimpleBinary, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Pics like that give me the heebie jeebies too for some reason bluenash... I don't know what it is.
- brownspank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They kept the dirt and grime there provide an extra layer of protection. :)
- DirkBelig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's a composite of the shuttle shot and the Google map: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5011/shuttlemapcompositebw2.jpg
- Awap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Look at the earth to the bottom left of the fuselage. Why is the ground textured like that? Are those separate plots of farmland or something? I knew that LEO was not very high (in relative terms) but I didn't think you could see that kind of detail. What are the brown lines separating the different patches of green?
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Canadians will be proud. The robotic-arm says 'Canada' on the upper-side of it (twist head 90 degrees counter-clockwise to see it).
- FirstStrike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, thats impressive !!!!!
- JeremiahLBurns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's farmland, as others here have said. If Spain's farmlands are anything like those in England (which is known for its 'patchwork farmland'), the brown lines you see separating the fields would be either hedgerows or stone walls.
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/England2004/Images2/IMG_3632Copying.jpg
http://www.keithv.com/cambridge/large/road_walls.jpg - yatpay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://spaceflight.nasa.gov has a lot of really hi res stuff, especially for the recent shuttle missions
- CrazyPDA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Stunning! Digg should have a separate category for high res images.
I wonder if google earth can be used to match up the visible land in the image to determine its location. - Mtap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just found my new desktop background.
- jbenson2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The photograph looks a lot better if you rotate it 180 degrees with a photo editor.
- themacx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2***** NASA...... Go! Burt Rutan!!!
- x2arden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What makes the Shuttle so cool is that it is reusable the only real spaceship that can do that. It flies through the air faster than any aircraft ever build on the way up, and hits the atmosphere at Mach 25 on the way down. The tiles, reinforced carbon carbon, and the thermal cloth, have to shield the aluminum skin and absorb all that energy that put it up on the way back down. I think it's beautiful and a testament to the engineers back in the 70’s that designed her. No you can't wash it. I went to the launch and it was awesome. Some of the highest tech we have. I did find out one thing I didn’t know while I was there, STS-121 was only the 146th time the US has put humans in space.
- Sblader5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i can see my house!
- x2arden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Correction only 146 U.S. human space flights before STS-121. STS-121 was the 147th.
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