3/5: True color Earth

Undertoad · 03-05-2002, 01:12 PM

This is the Astronomy Pic of the Day today and they explain it better than I could:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

I've seen this floating around in other places but haven't put it up here yet. But this one's special because we already made such a big deal out of the beautiful "earth at night" shot last year. This is a similar thing, done by the same people, only during the day. They only shot on cloud-free days...

It's interesting because even the most densely-populated bits are green.

The little dot just leaving Rome - is that guy from yesterday's IotD.

03-05-2002, 01:12 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	3/5: True color Earth This is the Astronomy Pic of the Day today and they explain it better than I could: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ I've seen this floating around in other places but haven't put it up here yet. But this one's special because we already made such a big deal out of the beautiful "earth at night" shot last year. This is a similar thing, done by the same people, only during the day. They only shot on cloud-free days... It's interesting because even the most densely-populated bits are green. The little dot just leaving Rome - is that guy from yesterday's IotD.

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