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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. Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo by leehwtsohg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, I think you are right. And the cloud layer has some obvious photoshop artifacts.. strange. (go left from panama, you'll hit a cloud with w hole, and a bit further left, another cloud with a hole. These two clouds and the region around them are pixel copies of each other. That was pointed to in a comment on gizmodo)

  2. Re:1st and I hope last time on gizmodo by yoshi_mon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, that site is a mess if you are using NoScript. I normally will allow the site itself and see if that will fix it but it did not. So rather than allowing the 5+ data-mining addresses to operate I just will do without.

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