Sunset from Columbia

shahani · March 10th, 2003, 09:07 PM

Very nice picture.

**cowboybooter** · March 10th, 2003, 09:11 PM

Fabulous pic !

CBB

**MD1032** · March 10th, 2003, 09:11 PM

:jawdrop THAT'S COOL!!!

**xenon200** · March 10th, 2003, 09:25 PM

Taken from here;

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth

**Creatures** · March 10th, 2003, 09:30 PM

wow awsome!! there's my house

Creatures

shahani · March 10th, 2003, 09:32 PM

Originally posted by Creatures
wow awsome!! there's my house

Creatures

With those 3 bright lights near Basel?

**Creatures** · March 10th, 2003, 09:43 PM

yes

Creatures

**Brainchild** · March 10th, 2003, 09:46 PM

there's my house

Is it for sale?

Great pic Shahani

shahani · March 10th, 2003, 10:05 PM

If your desktop is 1024X768, stretch it and it makes a great wallpaper.

**xenon200** · March 11th, 2003, 03:31 AM

North America (1024x768)

**Agent_Embryo** · March 11th, 2003, 03:40 AM

Wow, that is an amazing shot! Imagine sitting up there and watching the cities lighting up!

**Graham** · March 11th, 2003, 08:55 AM

Fantastic photo !!
Unusually it features europe

G

**Edit

I have just looked at some more, in higer res, these are unbelieveable pictures !!

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncg...mg=learth.evif

You can see the continental shelves, and the spreading along the tectonic plates down the middle of the atlantic, on another pic you can see the line of volcanoes on the plate boundary through the Hawaiian Islands!
The detail is stunning, I have not seen anything to rival these pictures anywhere.

Thanks for the link !

G

/Edit**

**Creatures** · March 11th, 2003, 10:03 AM

Originally posted by Graham
Fantastic photo !!
Unusually it features europe

hey it's from switzerland!

(ch)
it's unusually that it features America!

Creatures

**osprey4** · March 11th, 2003, 11:28 AM

Oops, it's fake!! Saw it on www.snopes.com

Although this image does accurately depict the landforms described and the positioning of lighted cities to the right of the day-night terminator line, it doesn't represent an actual Earth view one might see from space. (The topography of the ocean floor would not be visible in a genuine photograph, for example.) Real satellite images or data may have been used in its creation, but this photograph is either a composite formed by merging multiple images from different sources (the same technique used to create the stunning iceberg photograph), or a completely artificial picture generated by synthesizing data into a representative image.