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An Epic View of the Moon In Earth's Orbital Embrace
astroengine writes: As a suitably impressive follow-up to the new "blue marble" image of our world released in July, NASA shared a gorgeous animation created from pictures captured by NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft positioned nearly a million miles (1.5 million km) away — over four times farther than the moon. In a series of images acquired between 3:50 and 8:45 p.m. EDT on July 16, 2015, the moon can be seen passing in front of a rotating Earth, the warm gray face of its far side framed by the swirling-cloud-covered blue water of the eastern Pacific Ocean. The north pole is at the 11 o'clock position, illustrating our planet's 23.5-degree axial tilt.
It's all low resolution and choppy, like 4 frames of animation. Even the Mexicans could have done better.
Truly beautiful.
That is all.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
It's pretty cool but it also seems super low color, like someone converted it to gif with the standard websafe palette from the 90s. I was really hoping that this was hardware launched two decades ago, because then the colors would have felt very appropriate :/
"That's no moon"
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They made up all that math. The Earth is flat, see "Zetetic Astronomy": http://www.sacred-texts.com/ea...
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
You can see the Moon gently pulling the Earth towards the bottom-left as it starts to overlap. Truly amazing.
Just because it's a hologram doesnt make it less real.. that didnt stop goku from going ape super saiyyan remember?
I'd hesitate to call that person a "researcher". Those rolling distortions he filmed are pretty easily explained as some sort of atmospheric distortion - the very simplest possible explanation. Call me when we see a video of the moon with rippling distortions while filmed from orbit.
I think the reason this particular NASA image looks "fake" is because we have no frame of reference for it. We almost never see the back side of the moon, nor are used to seeing it crossing in front of the Earth. Moreover, the way it's badly compressed into an animated gif makes it look even sketchier. Seriously, it's 2015. Do we not have anything better than gifs for animating small clips like this?
What's funny is that I tend to believe it's real almost *because* it looks sort of hokey. It would be pretty easy to make a much more convincing CG animation that would look much more "realistic".
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Yo da views o' da moon is awe-some. All o' da world's problems is small compared ta dis here great picture , wOrd homeboys!
Translation for English speakers: "The views of the moon are awesone. All of the world's problems are small compared to this great picture!"
And had we not spent the money, the same people would still be literally starving to death.
Wrong. We Republicans would never be content with just letting you have-nots starve. We would never resort to such a passive measure. No, we would rampage through the slums you call homes, setting them on fire, hunting you down and then torture, rape and kill you. The only pictures we're interested in is of your faces flayed off, stretched and used as a grill ornament for our cars. That is the way of our kind.
pretty easily explained as some sort of atmospheric distortion
"explaining something" as "some kind of something" isn't explaining it at all. show us your assumptions and calculations, please.
show us your assumptions and calculations, please.
The moon is not a giant hologram projected by alien technology.[1]
[1] common fucking sense.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
"Common fucking sense" is about on par with your previous "explanation", and the use of expletives clearly shows that you can't do the math on your own. More, you don't even have a qualitative idea how it may or may not work.
You're the kind of useful idiot who will accept the explanation of the majority, because you're a part of the herd. So, give up already and say "I'm a blabbering conforming idiot who can't prove shit, but wants to pander to the slashdot groupthink" and be done with it. Don't pretend you know what you're talking about when, in fact, you have no clue.
“It is surprising how much brighter Earth is than the moon,” said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Our planet is a truly brilliant object in dark space compared to the lunar surface.”
The Moon has an albedo of about 0.1 (similar to coal), while Earth's albedo is three times greater, so this isn't really very surprising at all.
Article on NASA site: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353&src=iotdrss
it looks like animated bitmaps of early 90's PC games
I didn't know people could eat rockets or satellites.
Earth has enough resources for us to make food and launch rockets into space. Money spent on space does not destroy food and money is not food by itself.
You make a very good point.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The "whitey is not on the moon, he's just taking photos" argument.
P.S. This is GoreSat 1, the Republicans have spent decades trying to avoid it being launched.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Easier and more fun to hack ATM machines with some acetelyne.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Easy: you're a heritic for questioning well established scientific principals. Plase report to the town square to be tarred and feathered. (Also, plase bring some tar and some feathers).
Excuse me, stewardess, I speak Jive
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
What was obviously humor was taken serious and they thought you were trolling? Hmm... Maybe they have not seen your other comments? I thought it funny. I might have smoked a wee bit of weed but, still, I thought it was funny. Then again, the comments that are joking about the moon-landing being faked (obviously jokes) are modded down as well. Maybe it is a ritual that I do not understand.
I have seen this sort of things in other, past articles, where obvious humor was assumed to be a troll or flamebait or whatnot. No, I do not know why. Maybe it is some sort of Poe's law variation or something? I have noticed that the "/s" (sarcastic indicator) seems to help with the confusion when I have seen it used. *shrugs* I do not moderate, as a general rule, so it is not something I really understand.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
You really can not prove anything, at all, exists with mathematics. You can only infer that your measuring is accurate. In other words, you can not prove that you are real - all you can prove is that you can measure it and observe it. You can not even be certain that you're measuring it in any valuable method. Math does not really prove anything other than the chance of something being true within an applied framework. It is really a matter of probabilities and certainly not proof - only that it can be shown to be consistent. At best you can only prove that our current understanding is correct. Applied Mathematics is a thing, for a reason.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
No, the distortions are due to his shit camera.
You forgot the most imperative of questions my good sir or madam... "Y'ear me?" It seems silly to ask it so frequently. It is usually at loud volumes so, really, unless the indications are that one can not, in fact, hear them then they should, by all means, not need to inquire about it as loudly and frequently.
I say this, as a mixed race and being a partially black person, "Cut that shit out." You're not a Verizon commercial. We have many, many dialects of English in this country - including Ebonics. None of them require such an inquiry and it really is a silly question. Body language, alone, should be the indicator that your audience can not hear you. At best the question is pertinent just once or twice.
I am fluent in a number of regional Ebonics dialects (my inflection is off as I am not a native) and, really, I can generally tell if the person I am speaking to has a hearing disability. They will usually make it a point to let you know, actually. They will even let you know if they do not speak the language. Note: If they do not speak the language then, honestly, speaking it louder is unlikely to help.
But, enough about me...
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Do we not have anything better than gifs for animating small clips like this?
Webm. Its amazing and I'm shocked that so many people haven't caught the new wave yet.