Comments on: Photos of the Earth and Moon – From Other Worlds

By: whiteknight

whiteknight — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:31:46 +0000

Why can't i find any real close up pics of the moon. I mean if we were walking on the moon which i doubt then why dont we have any good pics of it

By: fuck you

fuck you — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:45:09 +0000

fuck to all of you

By: darius

darius — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:35:33 +0000

very good site thank you

By: Mythicalislife123

Mythicalislife123 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:19:27 +0000

omg i love other planets they have this mysterious edge to them and thats y people need to believe:)

By: bobbie

bobbie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:13:14 +0000

THESE ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOO KEWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

By: mike moran

mike moran — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:38:01 +0000

here's a way to decide whether or not it's australia: look at a map. yes, some of those islands look like indonesia, but they look a lot more like jamaica and the dominican republic/haiti. just saying.

-m

By: Kelli

Kelli — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:24:02 +0000

I love these photos !!!!They are awesome !!! I can't wait to look at more !!!!

By: Marvel L. Akinyemi

Marvel L. Akinyemi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:06:35 +0000

Those photographs are awesome! The more of such a person sees the less attached to things he should become. This life is sure more than bricks and sticks.

By: Linda A. Reynolds, Ed.S.

Linda A. Reynolds, Ed.S. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:36:21 +0000

Absolutely marvelous photography. However, the Universe seems to be a lonely place without life to acknowledge its splendor!

By: greg your last name

greg your last name — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:08:52 +0000

hye guys, nevermind about what i said earlier. It is defenitley NOT Australia no matter what you have to say. And thats my final answer.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:05:54 +0000

To be fair, its a simple concept its just a wee bit alien.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:42:20 +0000

We are so used to a North South orientation that we automatically see the Earth as slightly tilted in the picture, but of course it really is. Fact is if you lived all your life in a culture with a South North way of thinking, you might say the picture is upside down. This ol Earth looks wonderful from space at any angle in my opinion. I also appreciate that explanation of the rising Earth cause it don't move across the sky like the moon does as seen from here and it's one of the hard concepts for my students to understand. Everything we know is relative to the Earth.

By: greg your last name

greg your last name — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:15:10 +0000

hey youre all totally right. It is Australia. Although I was not tripping…I was looking at the last photo of the earth/moon,from Galileo.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:46:54 +0000

It is Australia. Try checking the ESA image here flipped horizontally against an image on the http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk archive for geostationary satillites for November 15th 0300UTC hrs in visible light. On that image the cloud formations are very closely matched but as the angle is different more of the other continents are in view.

By: alphonso richardson

alphonso richardson — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:47:19 +0000

Brilliant pictures
(and yes, it IS Australia…………………….)

By: Mauro

Mauro — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:48:23 +0000

Of course it is Australia in the Rosetta picture of Earth.
If in the upper center it were South America, then where is Anctartica and the South Pole. Did it melt away already?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:11:48 +0000

Wonderful photos thanks for posting.

My vision isnt what it used to be. I cant seem to spot the earth in the Cassini picture from Saturn. I see a whitish object in the very outer ring and more in the center of the picture. I doubt if thats Earth but if it isnt could some kind person be more specific as to its location

Thanks

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:35:27 +0000

The "earthrise" original pic was not horizontal as is commonly depicted. The original photograph is a vertical photograph, i.e., the earth is on the left and the moon on the right. It has been published many times over in the incorrect format to fit the description.

The photograph was taken as the astronauts rounded the surface from the dark side… so it was never really an earth rise but rather the earth coming back into view.

By: baley

baley — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:36:32 +0000

The Cassini picture of Earth From Saturn is really awesome. It will be my desktop for quite some time for sure!

By: PC in Dallas

PC in Dallas — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:12:46 +0000

I tried to put a Google Earth layout next to the photo of Australia and in one sense, it does look like Australia needs to be flipped over. But then that would make Asia's land mass wrong. And if the land mass at the top of the photo is Asia, why can't we see any of the many islands between Australia and Asia? But there is a large mass of ocean between Australia and the south pole. The cloud cover makes it hard to see what angle the picture is from and whether it was developed upside down or inside out but I have to agree that Australia doesn't quite look like it should.

By: PC in Dallas

PC in Dallas — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:58:09 +0000

I don't think the picture of Australia needs to be flipped. It is merely from an angle we are not used to seeing. Our brains have been trained to look at North to the top of the picture. I believe the land mass at the top of the photo is actually the South Pole during the South Pole's summer (again we are trained to think of it as nothing but ice/snow but at certain times of the year, land is visible). I can't see it well enough to know for sure.

By: PC in Dallas

PC in Dallas — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:52:02 +0000

Greg… look at a world map. What other continents look like that near Cuba and Florida? None. It is Australia. If you were seeing Cuba and Florida you would probably see parts of South America and/or the Gulf Coast of the U.S. There are no islands off the SE coast of the U.S. that are that big.

By: Use your eyes

Use your eyes — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:23:01 +0000

You are trippin' Greg That IS Australia. You can clearly see Eyre and Yorke peninsulas and as Aussie also said the Great Australian bight is clearly visable. The image does need to be flipped horizontally

By: kvenlander

kvenlander — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:58:42 +0000

Great pictures. How about adding links to original higher resolution images?

By: aussie

aussie — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:35:57 +0000

That totally IS Australia in the Rosetta image. Look at the Great Australian Bight. It does need flipping horizontally however as Dale said.