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- a3r0, on 10/11/2007, -1/+56Hey, look! A giant Youtube play button in space!
- Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -3/+52Dude, the Earth is flat. Like a pancake. That picture is round. Like a pancake. So we can conclude that...uh, GTG need to make some pancakes.
- swrostmore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+40I hate how whenever NASA images are on digg, they are always low to medium resolution. You know NASA takes these in multiple megapixels, so why can't we see that?
- mildsoup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+36might as well have been a .gif
- alexkim804, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29i wish the framerate was better.
- macrymble, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Wow...did they seriously use the YouTube play button?
- somnival, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20The clouds look completely static.
- xGeneric, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19at 0:02 you can see my house!
- Prometeus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19Usually I'm not one to cry out "Old news", but 10+ years is pretty bad.
- TenebrousX, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14@ quantumhobbit -
Because the government is so concerned with saving money... - turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Nasa doesn't use multiple megapixel cameras, they use really really nice low megapixel ones to keep file sizes down.
- chrisbasham, on 07/22/2008, -0/+7I was thinking the link would be a "rotational" image of the Earth as the ASTRONOMER Galileo thought it was. Cool nonetheless.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Must be a lightning storm.
- paulexander, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5It's amazing how we don't feel that jerky-ness here on earth. Must be God's love smoothing it out.
- tehrob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Better rez of the same earth flyby. took a bit of searching, but enjoy. :)
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002900/a002971/ - saifatlast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I think everyone should stop for a second and just contemplate that we live in an era when this exists. We have pictures of out planet, rotating in space. That really should be very noteworthy.
- richiestang78, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5We really do live on a beautiful planet, really hope we can sort all our problems out and enjoys it for a long time to come.
- eedge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@swrostmore
"You know NASA takes these in multiple megapixels, so why can't we see that?"
... because then we would be able to see all the aliens. - fluxion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"like a priceless jewel, buried in dark layers of soil and stone, Earth radiates her brilliant beauty into the caverns of space and time"
- junck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2That is not really earth. It is a model of earth against a black background somewhere out in Nevada. I mean come on, you can't see any stars and everyone knows that the earth doesn't rotate and orbit, the Universe rotates around earth.
hehe, ; ) - RUFFyamahaRYDER, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Was I the only one waiting for the... "BLAAAAHHH!!!! Holy sh*@!!! A (insert some scary thing here)!!! WTF!" thing to jump out?
- qcubed, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2[pedant]majestically[/pedant].
That said, nifty. :) - dotMH, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@minibash (#6683344)
Me too. Was hoping for some kick ass steam-punk machinery. - DanJohnHarris, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Taking an image "almost every minute" for 25 hours...
I'll give this ***** the benefit of doubt and say every 2 minutes.
30 pictures per hour. 25 hours. At 30 fps, the movie should be 25 seconds long, and the earth should rotate as smooth as television. - Quidam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Anyone else feeling dizzy after seeing that?
- FastZ, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That's pretty badass.
- dogstylee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That was pretty cool how it rolled away so you could see the orbit too.
- nonymous666, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They do move a little. Look at the first frame - one large cloud formation over north of South America, another over the southern part. One of the last frames also is of South America. The two formations are still visible, but different (they've dissipated some).
- marksmayo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ohhh...that's embarrassing...whoops! And normally *I'm* the spelling pedant! Thx ;)
- scotticus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This one is a little bit cooler, IMO
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/flyby_movie.html - Dichotomic, on 10/11/2007, -6/+7Oh shut the ***** up... god if you really think that us being here is so damn bad then go grab a glock and off yourself.
- Impetus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Still. They should move a little. This is a 25 hour composite, meaning we're looking at the same cloud in a 12 hour time frame. I'm pretty sure clouds undergo some change in that amount of time.
- nonymous666, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"The clouds look completely static."
The Earth is rotating at 1000mph. Clouds drift an average of maybe 30mph. How much cloud movement do you expect to see? - drouk1556, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I KNEW the sun passed overhead kind of fast yesterday! Damn you, NASA!
- InvisibleKid, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I never thought the sea would reflect light so smoothly!!!
- charliepHace, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Also, these pictures were taken in 1990. Perhaps an older technology is to blame here, not just file-size management or Galileo-to-Nasa bandwidth.
- tbr0, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Wow! It's cool how you can see the reflection of the sun in the seas. Makes the earth look so small...
- int128, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2is it me? or do the polar ice caps seem to be getting smaller and smaller... AL GORE WAS RIGHT!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4The world would be so much more peaceful if hippies were exterminated
- jakdracula, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I can see my house from here!
- blackprizm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0(Sigh)... Can't we all just get along.
- Klainmeister, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I feel lonely...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1...it is spinning in the wrong direction.
- anonymousguy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3I normally never post comments, but I am just astonished by hippies these days. I agree with dichotomic...the smug cloud is a little thick over here on Digg.
- drgmdp, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1aaaaahhhrg quicktime movies kill my inner child... :-/
why not an universally supported mpeg? - detayls, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Agreed. This is some sort of calculated composite from a single still image. Otherwise the clouds would move.
- CletusJones, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1How did I dupe that? Must be alcohol induced operator error.
- sonicEd, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0It made "silent movie". Who would of thunk?
- quantumHobbit, on 10/11/2007, -11/+8@swrostmore
I'm not saying that NASA in vulnerable to getting Dugg or slashdotted, but can you imagine what their bandwidth cost if tens of thousands of people on Digg are constantly viewing those huge multiple megapixel images. Also those images have to be sent across space by the craft, not exactly broadband speeds there. So if the image isn't the purpose of the craft as is the case here, they might not transfer the images in an uncompressed format and save that bandwidth for more important things. But take that with a grain of salt as I don't work for NASA. -
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