This was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission. This photo was taken via satellite, on a cloudless day.

The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting. Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities lights. The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert. Note how the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and how it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, and Madrid.

The sun is still shining on the Straight of Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, the Cape Verde Islands. Note how the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during daytime and nighttime.To the left, on top, is Greenland, totally frozen.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/p1b0cec28c59083c05366df87bd4f93db/fc921c61.jpg

I compressed it down but save it and resize is to like 900X900

****ing STELLAR!!! TTT

wicked

yeah I got this in the e-mail too, ****ing awesome pic.

awesome pic....... I see my country :)... If I zoom in I may be able to see my house LOL

THats now my backround on my desktop

mine too

Its good.

how come the ocean has dark blue in some areas and light blue in other areas? is that depth levels?

Originally posted by Purity
how come the ocean has dark blue in some areas and light blue in other areas? is that depth levels?

It's the depth.

Why's Africa covered in snow??

it's not snow, it's sand

Sand's yellow dumbass. Listen to this jerk...

Impressive photo

It looks a little bit different the color from the sahara region to the other color in greenland, and I guess that from those distances the appreciation of color its very difficult to have a nice resolution with the computers we have. a plasma monitor could define for sure the right tonality.

If you like that you can find more at these sites

http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/default.htm

http://www.science.co.il/Satellite_images.asp

http://www.science.co.il/images/satellite/Middle-East-night.jpg

this is on of Sydney...Its large so I just posted the link

http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/other_images/sydney_aus.jpg

Originally posted by Curly Howard
This was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission. This photo was taken via satellite, on a cloudless day.

The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting. Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities lights. The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert. Note how the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and how it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, and Madrid.

The sun is still shining on the Straight of Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, the Cape Verde Islands. Note how the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during daytime and nighttime.To the left, on top, is Greenland, totally frozen.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/p1b0cec28c59083c05366df87bd4f93db/fc921c61.jpg

I compressed it down but save it and resize is to like 900X900


Hey!! I see Barcelona in the middle!!...