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Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's

Posted by samzenpus on from the behind-the-iron-filter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Russians have published two amazing photos of Earth using their new Elektro-L satellite, in 30,000km high orbit around the equator. The quality is stunning, and they look quite different from NASA's Earth images. But why are they different? And are they better than NASA's?"

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  1. Please don't link to Gizmodo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gizmodo redirects any traffic to their localized versions. For example, I'm in Brazil and if I follow the link provided in the summary, they redirect me to http://www.gizmodo.com.br/#!5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before -- that doesn't exist and goes to the front page of the localized version.

    Note that I both my OS and browser are in English. I even made sure that my "preferred language for displaying pages" are only English. I guess they do the redirection based on IP only, and find that quite rude.

  2. Re:borked link by sproketboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gizmodo always does that. The links all revert to their home page like the fucken inbred assholes that they are.

    Remove the "#!" part.

    http://gizmodo.com/5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before

  3. Re:borked link by melikamp · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.russianspaceweb.com/elektro.html

  4. summaries should summarize, not tease. by doug141 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The russian photos in question combine infra-red with visible wavelengths. They are not better, just different.