Astronomy Picture of the Day
 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030324.html

[quote:7475f]No single spacecraft or astronaut took this picture. It is a digital composite of archived images taken by several Earth-orbiting satellites and ocean-faring ships. Similar images can be digitally stitched together for any Earth location by John Walker's Earth and Moon Viewer website. Specifically, the daytime land images were taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, while the nighttime images were taken by the DMSP satellites. This image is different from what an astronaut would see for reasons including a complete lack of clouds and an unrealistic exaggeration of lights and contrasts. The image has become both an internet wave in that it continues to circulate as an attachment to digital correspondence, and a modern urban legend. Another image like that is Earth at Night. The reason for the image's continued popularity might be simple: it is really cool looking. [/quote:7475f]

[img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0303/europesunset_livingearth_big.jpg[/img]

awesome.

That websites pretty cool, i thought this one was interesting http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040815.html

wheres the norther part of europe that is really bright?

[quote="Mr. maple":b3c7a]wheres the norther part of europe that is really bright?[/quote:b3c7a]

Looks like most of the bright area is Belgium and the Netherlands, with a little bit of France and Germany thrown in.

Here's another cool one. I'm sure a few of you guys have seen this on many of the desktop wallpaper websites.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040822.html

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":022d8]Here's another cool one. I'm sure a few of you guys have seen this on many of the desktop wallpaper websites.

[url="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040822.html"]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040822.html[/url][/quote:022d8]
wow. there are like 0 dark spots in the us, almost most of canada is dark

yeah, 90% of our population lives within a close range to the 49th paralel...

lol wow West coast = pwned by East coast ed:

word to the east.

U can see buttocks forehead from the remote city of InHisbed

I can see my house!!!!!!!! rock:


personally I like this pic;

[img]http://canopy.lmsal.com/schryver/Public/homepage/images/eagleneb.jpg[/img]

the one on the left is a lifesize replica of my pen0r

cant forget the horsehead neb either

[img]http://www.spiritart.org/OuterSpace/horsehead-nebula.jpg[/img]

ed: thats kool

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":90c65]I can see my house!!!!!!!! rock:


personally I like this pic;

[img]http://canopy.lmsal.com/schryver/Public/homepage/images/eagleneb.jpg[/img]

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The first picture might be fake but its fucking awesome

And so is this one bunny, i love that picture.

you know all that shit comes back black and white....and people put the colors in it.