Straight of Gibraltar in the upper right.

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[–] 21 points 4 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That’s why the best selling book in the universe has “Don’t Panic” printed in large, friendly letters on the cover.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I hope your comment gets 42 upvotes, not more, no less.

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  • [+] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t know. Going to N-S rotation would be a fun change from E-W rotation.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    RHCP will have to revise some of their lyrics in their hit song Californication

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    That image compression...

    Here's a high res version

    Edit: and the original

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Portugal mentioned!!!

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I can't see the other side. Flat earth confirmed. /s

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Whats on the other side of the disk? 🤔

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    I'm betting that we get a vast majority of the pictures after the splashdown. They aren't even at the moon yet, so the most important pics of the trip are yet to be snapped.

    That being said, I really really really like this one because it's showing the moonlit nightside of the planet with auroras, airglow and zodiacal light in the background. A picture like that has never been taken before.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Don't worry, they were trained to take images of the earth....

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