Comments on: This Week's "Where In The Universe" Challenge

By: Govinda

Govinda — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:52:45 +0000

Finally,
I got the planet and spacecraft both right!
This is one of my favourite weekly things from the net.
Thanks.

By: Jano (9 yo)

Jano (9 yo) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:25:02 +0000

I knew it was the Earth!!!
I spotted the roads

By: neoguru

neoguru — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:50:44 +0000

Still only 3 wrong (not counting spacecraft or extra points). Earth's high altitude mountains are obvious. Glacial, meandering stream with braded pattern. Yikes! Rows of trees and a road on the far right! Very nice.

By: ioresult

ioresult — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:26:29 +0000

Google's got a high def picture: http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=lhasa,+tibet&ie=UTF8&ll=29.308555,91.193905&spn=0.119002,0.195694&t=h&z=13

BTW, the ISS picture has north downwards.

By: Yoo

Yoo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:46:55 +0000

At least I got the planet right …

By: astrocrazy

astrocrazy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:43:43 +0000

I had two guesses – one was some valley in Mars or our own Himalayan glaciers…Guess i was a little closer this time….
Thanks for these stimulating thoughts…

By: Kootstar

Kootstar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:21:13 +0000

Lo and behold, I finally guessed one (almost ) right. I figured Earth and ISS, but had three possibles that none matched this well enough. But at least this was in real eye contact coloration. That helped alot.

By: RL

RL — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:45:06 +0000

WooHoo! This is the closest I've ever been. I said Earth, although I thought it was China. The pictures look similar to the pictures taken of the dammed water from that big earthquake. I thought it was taken by the space shuttle.

By: unique_stephen

unique_stephen — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:37:38 +0000

It had to be earth – thats a classic braided stream. Lots of sediment and lots of water. Correct me if I'm wrong but when I look at Mars I see fan like density flows, not sediments like this

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:18:19 +0000

Got Tibet and the spacecraft. Yiieeew!

By: dominion

dominion — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:59:44 +0000

Yay! Finally got one right. Planet and the ISS part anyway. I thought it was Alaska.

By: Nexus

Nexus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:34:10 +0000

The river was a dead giveaway. Admittedly there's liquid-formed features on Mars and Titan, but nothing like this. It could only be Earth.

By: James

James — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:30:50 +0000

I knew it was Earth…! I didn't guess ISS or Tibet, though. I never think I could guess the spacecraft right, even though the ISS should have been the obvious guess.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:10:37 +0000

I acuallty guessed Tibet i was right for a change.

By: Dark Gnat

Dark Gnat — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:53:36 +0000

Yeah, the water kinda gave it away…

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:52:43 +0000

This is the Earth, of course, and I'd venture a guess of the ISS in the spacecraft department. But beyond that…

Mountainous and dry area with rivers flowing through? Somewhere in Central Asia, perhaps? Afghanistan? Or maybe in some area in the Andes? Let's read the rest of the post now…

Ah, Tibet. Nice. Almost spot on…

By: byron

byron — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:43:04 +0000

Considering you can see roads and man groomed land masses its not hard to tell this is on earth.

Tibet wasn't my first guess though.