Straight of Gibraltar in the upper right.
So, I am walking my dog and take like 20 pictures of him plying. Guys fly to the moon and all we’ve got is just this one image?
Don’t worry, they were trained to take images of the earth…
Whats on the other side of the disk? 🤔
Turtles, all the way down.
The moon & sun. Friggin’ amateur hour over here. What a bunch of clowns.
That image compression…
Here’s a high res version
Thanks - I pulled the first one I saw and it was already framed up. I was posting mostly to show anyone looking at this in the future that if you rotate like 130 degrees, it shows outlines we’re familiar with from looking at maps.
Also, totally wild this is a moonshine image, with city lights across Africa visible, and the aurora australis in there.
Why rotating it, though?
Because the original is not in a North-South orientation, so it’s hard to tell that this is West Africa and the Iberian peninsula. Just to make it easier to understand what we’re looking at.
Mmm, isn’t that a feature? That our world has many points of view, all equally valid. There is nothing to fix in the original photo because when you look at a planet there is no up or down, just the unfathomable canvas of void embracing it.
I would even argue that the original orientation is good for the soul of those that cannot see the world with “some countries on the top”. Especially during these times.
So that it properly projects on the retina ofc
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I can’t see the other side. Flat earth confirmed. /s
Portugal mentioned!!!
Looks pretty flat to me.
Like a coin! Science, bitch!
That ought to be the most terrifying and awesome thing to experience. Seeing the thing you spent your entire life on, and everything you know and love and ever experienced is sitting on it, get smaller and smaller as you drift in the vast darkness of space.
You really gotta try not to panic while you’re up there.
That’s why the best selling book in the universe has “Don’t Panic” printed in large, friendly letters on the cover.
I hope your comment gets 42 upvotes, not more, no less.
I did my part
I bumped it to 8.
Farewell and thanks for all the fish!
Tell commander Reid Wiseman to stop rotate Earth, N-S or any other direction. It is perfectly nice as it is.
I don’t know. Going to N-S rotation would be a fun change from E-W rotation.
RHCP will have to revise some of their lyrics in their hit song Californication
Probably not since they covered their bases in the same song by declaring that while space may be the final frontier, it’s made in a Hollywood basement.
