August 27th, 2015: ISS Nightlight

xoxoxoBruce · 08-26-2015, 09:55 PM

The nightlight for the International Space Station is the Earth.
We've seen this type of pictures before, but I never tire of them.

There is 20 more of them here.

glatt · 08-27-2015, 07:37 AM

Cool looking images, but I'd like to know what I'm looking at.

These seem completely computer generated to me. The elevations of the land are very exaggerated, and the colors are all wrong. Plus there is no cloud cover anywhere and the oceans are lit up.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-27-2015, 09:10 AM

The ones I posted are obvious what your looking at, but the ones at the link are harder to identify. That's the fun of them.

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The high definition have been specially edited using various techniques, allowing NASA to add a vertical exaggeration of the relief based on a digital terrain model.

BigV · 08-27-2015, 09:24 AM

well, the geographical inspirations for the images are mostly figure-out-able, but I agree with glatt that these are not photographs of the earth. There are a couple at the site that are very dark continental landmasses that could be photos of the earth, but these ones with the swimming pool continental shelf and the pointy hills and spiky coastlines and the ridiculously bent horizons... those are the products of someone's computer skills.

glatt · 08-27-2015, 10:17 AM

One cool thing with the exaggerated land elevation is that I never knew there was a mountain range in Arkansas. I thought everything in "the middle" was flat, but Arkansas has mountains. I mean, I guess I had heard of the Ozarks, but I thought they branched off the Smokey Mountains ore something. And they have the Ouachita Mountains too.

Griff · 09-27-2017, 07:23 PM

Anyway, 2 years later I just watched the ISS cruise across the sky!

xoxoxoBruce · 09-27-2017, 07:34 PM

Did you flash it?

Griff · 09-28-2017, 06:05 AM

No but I did experience a moment of hopefulness about humanity. Does that count for something?

xoxoxoBruce · 09-28-2017, 10:30 PM

Probably good for your head, just don't let on to your neighbors, they might get the pitchforks and torches out.
I mean who the hell are you to delay Armageddon.

Griff · 09-29-2017, 06:52 AM

Oh it's coming baby, even my moderate friends are stocking ammo.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-29-2017, 11:03 AM

If my house caught fire I'd have a moral obligation to wave off the firemen.

Diaphone Jim · 09-29-2017, 12:05 PM

Does Antananarivo on Madagascar really have 99.9% of the light?
I agree that many hours can be spent enjoying those pics.

08-26-2015, 09:55 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	August 27th, 2015: ISS Nightlight The nightlight for the International Space Station is the Earth. We've seen this type of pictures before, but I never tire of them. There is 20 more of them here. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-27-2015, 09:24 AM	#4
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	well, the geographical inspirations for the images are mostly figure-out-able, but I agree with glatt that these are not photographs of the earth. There are a couple at the site that are very dark continental landmasses that could be photos of the earth, but these ones with the swimming pool continental shelf and the pointy hills and spiky coastlines and the ridiculously bent horizons... those are the products of someone's computer skills. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

09-27-2017, 07:23 PM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Anyway, 2 years later I just watched the ISS cruise across the sky! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-27-2017, 07:34 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Did you flash it? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-28-2017, 06:05 AM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	No but I did experience a moment of hopefulness about humanity. Does that count for something? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-27-2015, 07:37 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Cool looking images, but I'd like to know what I'm looking at. These seem completely computer generated to me. The elevations of the land are very exaggerated, and the colors are all wrong. Plus there is no cloud cover anywhere and the oceans are lit up.

08-27-2015, 10:17 AM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	One cool thing with the exaggerated land elevation is that I never knew there was a mountain range in Arkansas. I thought everything in "the middle" was flat, but Arkansas has mountains. I mean, I guess I had heard of the Ozarks, but I thought they branched off the Smokey Mountains ore something. And they have the Ouachita Mountains too.

09-28-2017, 10:30 PM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Probably good for your head, just don't let on to your neighbors, they might get the pitchforks and torches out. I mean who the hell are you to delay Armageddon. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-29-2017, 06:52 AM	#10
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Oh it's coming baby, even my moderate friends are stocking ammo. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-29-2017, 11:03 AM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	If my house caught fire I'd have a moral obligation to wave off the firemen. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-29-2017, 12:05 PM	#12
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	Does Antananarivo on Madagascar really have 99.9% of the light? I agree that many hours can be spent enjoying those pics.

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