13 thoughts on “Now This Is What I Call A Carbon Footprint”
It is so beautiful … so much that if an idiot start crying ”luminous pollution” I will let even more lights on, especially since it drowns the polar bears has a bonus
So does that make Sicily a political football?
Never been more proud of my Italian blood (mother’s side.)
Hmm want to make this a desktop background but can’t find a hi res version 600×400 image dosen’t look right stretch across 1900×1200. Anyone seen a link to a higher res image?, found on nasa one of the Gulf and Mississippi . But that an’t nearly as nice as this one or the Egypt one.
What the yellow halo is that scattering or just upper atmospheric/”smog from LA” reflecting of the night lights/light pollution ?
What I want to know is, who built that big yellowish bubble that surrounds the earth? And how does the Shuttle get through it?
I know very little about space, so you have to help me here…
that big yellowish bubble that surrounds the earth
It looks bigger than the “coat of paint on a basketball” that I was told to expect…
Engineer Says:
What the yellow halo is that scattering or just upper atmospheric/”smog from LA” reflecting of the night lights/light pollution ?
MfK Says:
What I want to know is, who built that big yellowish bubble that surrounds the earth? And how does the Shuttle get through it?
It’s called “airglow.” The shuttle punches through it with those two big yellow-flamey thingies on the sides, and those three smaller blue-flamey thingies on the bottom.
A thin yellow-brown band tracing the Earth’s curvature at image top is airglow, a faint band of light emission that results from the interaction of atmospheric atoms and molecules with solar radiation at approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) altitude.
As the dramatic lack of lights illustrate, there are homesteading opportunities in Croatia and Bosnia. Hey, Bosnia even accomodates ministates — setup your own European libertarian paradise.
Seriously: the land might be owned by refugees, but the refugees aren’t planning on returning, and they would be willing to sell the land at an extremely low price, since it is probably the best they can do. I think the government frowns on foreigners owning private islands and other choice locales, but it welcomes development in some of the inland black areas in the photo.
Though you may have to sort through some others to find this one specifically.
Did a quick work-through of the process. There’s a clickable map at the first link I posted, then you get a closer-in view, and after a second click you get a list with an option to see thumbnails. Turns out this is one of a sequence of images taken on a ‘flyover’ of the boot. I’m pretty sure this is the image:
Somewhere, a “Carrie” is looking at that picture and wondering how much those heals cost.
Dunno, parts of the image are Greek to me
Nice thanks Tom , I had found those pictures and website last night but the script didn’t work and it didn’t show the request link at the bottom. Thanks for a functioning link. Cheers
It is so beautiful … so much that if an idiot start crying ”luminous pollution” I will let even more lights on, especially since it drowns the polar bears has a bonus
So does that make Sicily a political football?
Never been more proud of my Italian blood (mother’s side.)
Hmm want to make this a desktop background but can’t find a hi res version 600×400 image dosen’t look right stretch across 1900×1200. Anyone seen a link to a higher res image?, found on nasa one of the Gulf and Mississippi . But that an’t nearly as nice as this one or the Egypt one.
What the yellow halo is that scattering or just upper atmospheric/”smog from LA” reflecting of the night lights/light pollution ?
What I want to know is, who built that big yellowish bubble that surrounds the earth? And how does the Shuttle get through it?
I know very little about space, so you have to help me here…
that big yellowish bubble that surrounds the earth
It looks bigger than the “coat of paint on a basketball” that I was told to expect…
Engineer Says:
MfK Says:
It’s called “airglow.” The shuttle punches through it with those two big yellow-flamey thingies on the sides, and those three smaller blue-flamey thingies on the bottom.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=46820
As the dramatic lack of lights illustrate, there are homesteading opportunities in Croatia and Bosnia. Hey, Bosnia even accomodates ministates — setup your own European libertarian paradise.
Seriously: the land might be owned by refugees, but the refugees aren’t planning on returning, and they would be willing to sell the land at an extremely low price, since it is probably the best they can do. I think the government frowns on foreigners owning private islands and other choice locales, but it welcomes development in some of the inland black areas in the photo.
Database of astronaut photography:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/clickmap/
Though you may have to sort through some others to find this one specifically.
Did a quick work-through of the process. There’s a clickable map at the first link I posted, then you get a closer-in view, and after a second click you get a list with an option to see thumbnails. Turns out this is one of a sequence of images taken on a ‘flyover’ of the boot. I’m pretty sure this is the image:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS025&roll=E&frame=9840
Which you can then request the hi-res version.
Somewhere, a “Carrie” is looking at that picture and wondering how much those heals cost.
Dunno, parts of the image are Greek to me
Nice thanks Tom , I had found those pictures and website last night but the script didn’t work and it didn’t show the request link at the bottom. Thanks for a functioning link. Cheers