Sunset from space
Posted on:: February 13th, 2005
This is an astonishing photo, taken from on board the Columbia, of the earth at sunset. (Thanks, Mas!)
Micah Sifry, however, points out that Snopes says it’s a phony. Damn truth! Always getting in the way of our fun!
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Sorry to be a party pooper, but it’s not real.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp
If you had my 1994 CD-ROM 3D atlas, you could see a dynamic version of that effect to show day and night round the world.
Think about the exposure range needed for that to be a real picture…
Mmmhh – it’s a nice picture, but its not real. Just look at the sea, it should show reflections of the sinking sun – and not geological underwater profiles.
If i am not wrong the image is created by John Walkers wonderful http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth
Nice work Scrivs and Co. Fantastic design.
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Thanks Micah, Michael, Snopes, et al….
Bummer! Still, it is a cool picture and idea, even if it is a fake.
Further evidence: There really shouldn’t be Rome-sized bright lights in that part of the Sahara.
Sorry, Dr. D!
Real or not – the island in the upper left hand corner of the photo is not Greenland, but the island nation of Iceland.
Geography….