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Amazing picture of Earth

PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2003 7:33 pm
by ChrisX
I've just seen an amazing image of Earth with the moon from Mars. Wow!

Check out: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 45jfk.html

PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 12:07 am
by CignaXI
That pic really sucks.

PS: Sorry for my honesty.

PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 1:07 am
by eliminator
Here's a better one by Evad Damast: "Copper Moon, Golden Gate"

Image

PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 3:05 am
by ChrisX
CignaXI wrote:That pic really sucks.

PS: Sorry for my honesty.


What do you expect, the image is from space so far away, 86 million miles! I know this image is enlarged so many times due to the distance from Mars and this gets a little blurred.

You don't appreciate on what I am saying! Would you be able to view this on Mars and take this picture? :evil:

PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 3:13 am
by ChrisX
eliminator wrote:Here's a better one by Evad Damast:


This is from San Francisco not from out in space, so you missed my point and don't appreciate it either.

Anyway, I've seen this picture before, only on Earth.

PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 3:20 am
by eliminator
"Anyway, I've seen this picture before, only on Earth."

So you've actually been on Earth ... cool.

PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 4:25 am
by TheWizard
It's a nice picture, Chriscjgs, I appreciate it. Looking at Earth from another planet really puts us and our lives in perspective, doesn't it?

My only gripe about the photo, why did they have to put the words "EARTH" and "MOON" in large, blocky, white letters? It ruins the photo somewhat, and frankly, if you don't know that Earth is the blueish sphere then you need to go back to school. :wink:

PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 4:46 am
by CDRecorder
I appreciate it, too! I think that it's neat that they could get both Earth and the Moon in the same pic! I've never seen something like that, before!

PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2003 1:41 am
by CignaXI
I do understand you, I really do. But my point is why waste millions of dollars and resources to take a picture of the earth from mars when we can use that money in something that the earth really needs it. I don't need to spend millions of dollars to realize how beautiful planet earth is and to realize my existence when there are many people needing that money and our own planet is being destructed. I do see the beauty in it but also see the irony in it.

PS: Sorry but NASA sometimes makes me mad.

PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2003 9:20 pm
by Turkeyscore.com
They Should have used a better camera for that picture too :P

PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2003 2:53 am
by eliminator
Yup - they spent millions on the journey to deliver the WallMart disposable camera to the Space ! :lol: