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Highest Resolution Image of Earth Yet

submitted by JiggaJonson

1 decade 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago

"Unlike NASA's Blue Marble—which is a composite made from many different photographs—this is a portrait of Earth taken in one single shot. It's the highest resolution image of our home planet, 121 megapixels. That's an amazing 0.62 miles per pixel."
-Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5909215/this-is-the-definitive-photograph-of-planet-earth

(in the Russia channel b/c the photo was taken by Russia's latest weather satellite, the Electro-L)

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*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Fusionaut.

What are all those brown places??!!

>> ^chingalera:

What are all those brown places??!!

That's where the T-Virus has taken hold. I hear it's under control now though.

That's a hell of a flash on that camera.

I wonder the same--those should probably be the green areas. Maybe it's false-color infrared? >> ^chingalera:

What are all those brown places??!!

The colors reveal the benefit of owning that sector. Yellow sectors are Energy producers. Green sectors are Food producers. Brown sectors are Metal producers. You need to own at least one Brown sector and two Yellow sectors to build a Star Destroyer.

this is wayyyyyyyyy better in 1080P

From YouTube description: "The images are taken in four different wavelengths of light, three visible, and one infrared. The infrared light appears orange in these images, and shows vegetation."

Wow... Seeing the reflection of the Sun from our oceans is pretty damned cool.

*spacy

Adding video to channels (Spacy) - requested by xxovercastxx.

It's weird how the clouds seem to be moving at a slower framerate than the rest of the video.

This post has been removed from the Russia channel by channel owner Barseps. Please review the FAQ to learn about appropriate channel assignments.

*promote... I am a fan.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, May 10th, 2012 7:08pm PDT - promote requested by MycroftHomlz.

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