Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 03, 2005 04:54AM
And?
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 03, 2005 04:55AM
This photograph was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last
mission, on a cloudless day.
The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting. Half of the picture
is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities lights.
The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert. Note that the lights are already on
in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and that's it's still daylight in Dublin,
London, Lisbon, and Madrid
The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Mediterranean Sea is
already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores
Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the
Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of
Africa, are the Cape Verde Islands.
Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during Daytime and
night time.
To the left, on top, is Greenland, totally frozen over.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 03, 2005 04:58AM
Patience, Patience! I was busy copying and pasting the attached info to the
picture!
Jeez!
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 03, 2005 05:47AM
I'd be more impressed if you took it. There's more nice pics out there, keep
looking..you can do better..
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 03, 2005 05:22PM
For Christ's sake! Sorry! I'll do my best to get a ride on the shuttle next
time they launch it!
I'll bring along my point and shoot camera.
Ninepointfiver Report This Comment Date: October 03, 2005 10:07PM
That's an amazing view.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: October 04, 2005 01:18AM
i wanna ride to bro.!
chupalaflablah Report This Comment Date: October 04, 2005 05:22AM
Well, fellow nerd *90130, I LOVE this pic!!! Five all the way.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 04, 2005 07:12PM
Trolls. A picture from the shuttle Columbia my ass. That picture is a photo
collage. It's funny that you can see the oceanic ridges and the continental
shelves with the shadows and all... It's also funny that the *whole* Europe,
North Africa and North Atlantic are *totally* cloudless. Bullshit. Try taking
any Nasa cloudless Earth map and overlay it with the classic Earth at night
picture.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 05, 2005 11:29PM
hey 238240...your an idiot! Thats a great picture.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 06, 2005 04:17AM
This picture was emailed to me from a friend who works for Grumman Aerospace. I
would think it unlikely at best that he'd send me a digitally manipulated pic,
since he's one of the people that helps put the shuttle in orbit.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: October 06, 2005 08:00AM
Correction; "since he's one of the people (who) helps put the shuttle in
orbit."
