The Most Detailed Picture of Earth

Nasa just released something they had been working on for months. These are the most detailed images of Earth ever taken. Isn't she beautiful?





And this was the image taken by Apollo 17 all those years ago:

That's not beautiful. That's insane.

Amazing, but isent the most detailed image of earth, google earth?

Yeah, they even have pictures of the cities.

no it's the most detailed photo taken from space ever of earth. but apparently the image is a few months old and the media is just releasing it as new.

No, the actual images used in Google earth are older and less detailed. They use images given to them by space agencies all over the world.

No, they use a trolley and take pictures of everything.
I could scan a photo from the reader's digest page I have, but I'm too lazy.

those are ground photos. how to you get a 30km areal view from a trolley?How could they get pictures of the ocean in a trolley. they did uses user submitted photos but the point is that they don't have the most detailed pictures ever. they use thousands pf photos to make the earth and its cities.

True, but lets say,this is the largest combination of images of earth then. Alsy i think he means the street view on google maps.

Yes, also there's an editing tool for google maps so that users can change the terrain.
The proof is in my reader's digest. Now if I can just find it...

come on no australia... why were prejudiced armstrong why?! wonder what it's like being on the moon...

well, you can see more of Australia than you can of the UK, that's for sure.
But what do you expect? NASA has to cetre in on the USA, and India is on the opposite side of the world, explaining the second picture.

fair enough... damn you NASA...

Hey, while you guys feel sorry for yourself, I can't even see my country singapore!

Looks great, just in a few decades the blue will be gone and replaced with brown.

You're not serious, are you? But if you are... *Epic facepalm of epic proportions*

I think it is the green that will turn brown....

well, if the oceans all evaporate into space....

ROFL!

The oceans will never evaporate by anything mankind does...

Only when the sun goes bezerk... then maybe

Well if we managed to get the atmosphere to catch fire by a H-bombing spree...

so girls like shopping sprees....

guys however like H-bombing sprees


heh heh heh he he he

*tumbleweed rolls by*

er, yes. ha ha Ha Ha HA HA

Shemuel wrote:*tumbleweed rolls by*

er, yes. ha ha Ha Ha HA HA

indeed... right... ha ha ha...


Anyway... You would need H-Bombs in large amounts...

*Erhm* *Joins the pity laughing*

Yes, a ridicilous amount of H-Bombs. Probably a few billion more than we have now.

Well if the sun goes Supernova then we're certainly dead.

OUR sun wont go supernova... It's too small for that...

He's just gonna grow like a balloon and the reduce size, like if you made a small hole in the balloon...

It would need to have 10x more mass than it has now...

One day, the sun will swallow the earth.

...NONE SHALL INNUENDOISE THAT SENTENCE

JPB18 wrote:OUR sun wont go supernova... It's too small for that...

He's just gonna grow like a balloon and the reduce size, like if you made a small hole in the balloon...

It would need to have 10x more mass than it has now...

It will grow into a Blue Giant....and then Supernova...so yes it will.

Mr.Borg wrote:

JPB18 wrote:OUR sun wont go supernova... It's too small for that...

He's just gonna grow like a balloon and the reduce size, like if you made a small hole in the balloon...

It would need to have 10x more mass than it has now...

It will grow into a Blue Giant....and then Supernova...so yes it will.

Nope...

Blue Giants only live for 1 million years... Our sun already has 5 million years, so...

Well... Our sun will just expand a bit and then reduce back to the size of a white dwarf, so... don't expect any explosion...

awwwww,thats no fun, lol But on the history channel the people were like oh it will explode, blablablabla

It will get bigger, and destroy us in the process though. In a few hundred million years, I think if I remember correctly.

So maybe, by the time we get completely carbon neutral and stop global warming, we'll have to move anyway.

Yea, the moon Titan seems promising.

Did youo know that our moon constantly produces Oxygen?

Actually, mars looks more promising... There's water and we might be able to terraform it in the future.

Europa seems more... ICE! Atmosphere... Well... There's a lot of water there, so... we could get Oxigen and rocket fuel at the same time!

Yes true.

Did you know the scientists already now how to turn Mars into an oxygen-producing, plant-growing, habitable planet?

Cost issues. And Iraq-related-protest-bombing issues.

i can see my house XD

Mr.Borg wrote:Yes true.

Did you know the scientists already now how to turn Mars into an oxygen-producing, plant-growing, habitable planet?

Cost issues. And Iraq-related-protest-bombing issues.

And how do they plan on doing that to a planet with no magnetic shield? The atmosphere would be (and was) literally blown away by solar winds and the radiation would kill the plants that couldn't grow due to lack of liquid watter and low O2 levels. And what about the aur temo that rarely gets above 32F (0C) and most of the time is 1F (-17.2C) or during night where it drops well below 0F.

(this is a debate i am certainly more than willing to have. I know this stuff more than i know html or computers at all. Truly my absolute expertise.)

JPB18 wrote:Europa seems more... ICE! Atmosphere... Well... There's a lot of water there, so... we could get Oxigen and rocket fuel at the same time!

He is correct, about the size of our moon, atmosphere, strong magnetic sphere, liquid watter (theorized not proven).

Actually on mars, if you put a base in a crater on the top of the planet like in the north pole were there is always shade and light, you can survive, and also NASA plans to melt the ice on the planet (though the ice they are melting is carbon ice) the will melt if to release the carbon to create and atmousphear, and for the solar radiation, NASA plans to make renforced structures that can resist the solar winds and stuff, atleast untill there is a stable atmousephear.

Shad for 6 months and light for 6 months. Sounds like a great idea;)

Evil Person wrote:Actually on mars, if you put a base in a crater on the top of the planet like in the north pole were there is always shade and light, you can survive, and also NASA plans to melt the ice on the planet (though the ice they are melting is carbon ice) the will melt if to release the carbon to create and atmousphear, and for the solar radiation, NASA plans to make renforced structures that can resist the solar winds and stuff, at least until there is a stable atmousephear.

That is not possible. Read below.

2 problems. Its -200F at the poles. All the time. I didn't say the winds would blow away the structures, I said they would blow away the atmosphere (like the air and stuff), and its happening (minimally) to earth right now(feel free to ask why). 2nd The air (what little there is) on mars cannot sustain plant life because it does not have enough O2 (that would be oxygen for you illiterate folk). How ever, you are somewhat right about one thing. We would have to do it in an old volcano base, crater, or mouth (Olympus Mons would be ideal). In those areas mars has a weak magnetic field. (If you really want to know why its only in those areas, ask.) The other problem is generating power.

Well to genorate power put solar panels there all the time, and at the poles you can create heat, in 1700 BC (i think it was this time anyway) they invented fire, and coats, and walls to keep heat in and stuff, oh and in the poles i mean like the area were it is in the middle of light and dark sides of the planet, and in a crater were there would be magnetic fields (and why are there better magnetic fields there?)

there are no places where it is both light and dark. and in craters there is virtually no magnetic fields, its volcanoes where the magnetic fields are. Unless you covers the entire surface in solar panels you would not be able to create enough power the way, but there are ways to do it. I am not and never have said that life on mars was impossible. But plant life on the surface and an atmosphere is. If we were going to live on mars, the best pace would be Olympus Mons where there is the larges magnetic "spot". (I wouldn't call it a field because it does not cover the whole planet)

The feild is strongest there beacuse, at one time, mars did in fact have a magnetic field. The same time that it had volcano activity. When rock melts, its small magnetic particals are reset. Then when it cools it resets and aligns to the current global field. Before the rock was melted its field was jumbled and couldn't form, but once they aligned they can form a proper field.

That is why a volcano is ideal.

Back to the original point again, mars has no atmosphere because it has no field. You simply cannot grow plat on its surface. (how ever, Martian soil is perfect for growing its like fertilizer on steroids. Its the air that is missing for the plants.)

(Yes, i know that I cannot spell correctly)

You'd have to build some sorta dome shaped biosphere that you can open and close, solar panels on top, radio transmitter, the whole shabang. The biosphere is the answer.

Darkjedi wrote:You'd have to build some sorta dome shaped biosphere that you can open and close, solar panels on top, radio transmitter, the whole shabang. The biosphere is the answer.

Only if we're going to use Mars as a stagging ground for longuer voyages/minning planet...

And about the energy, by the time we reach a colony on mars or in Europa, we'd already have Fusion Reactors (I believe)...

What's there to worry in 5 billion years, I'm sure humans evolve to become resistant to radiation or something like that. Or we can make a planetary shield. Or prevent the Sun from doing that.

And red giants like the sun do make explosions. The outer layer will blow off when it's life as a red giant come to an end, leaving a dwarf star.

JPB18 wrote:

Darkjedi wrote:You'd have to build some sorta dome shaped biosphere that you can open and close, solar panels on top, radio transmitter, the whole shabang. The biosphere is the answer.

Only if we're going to use Mars as a stagging ground for longuer voyages/minning planet...

And about the energy, by the time we reach a colony on mars or in Europa, we'd already have Fusion Reactors (I believe)...

I think we already have the technology for extremely cheap and efficient energy.

I heard of this guy my aunt knew about in Florida that invented some sort of generator involving electromagnets. The generator, was supposedly able to keep on running for a theoretically indefinite period of time once you started it. The only thing it used was a lubricant to keep the parts moving. Other than that, after the initial start, it was completely clean energy from what I heard. Anywho, the guy practically disappeared.
:cough: Feds :cough: Still, just a Florida legend. Who knows though, right?

Definitely a florida legend. A particularly stupid and cliched one too.

Final Frontier wrote:What's there to worry in 5 billion years, I'm sure humans evolve to become resistant to radiation or something like that. Or we can make a planetary shield. Or prevent the Sun from doing that.

And red giants like the sun do make explosions. The outer layer will blow off when it's life as a red giant come to an end, leaving a dwarf star.

Yes dipshit, suns make explosions. These explosions are not going to kill you by just radiation. They are going to fry you alive.

It doesn't matter anyway. Humanity will never survive that long, we are too self-centred, too national-centred, to constantly act for the common good. We may last five hundred, not five million.

And DJ....yes, yes, you're completely right.

Dude, i was watching a thing on the science channel they said that our sun has another 10 Trillion Years before it explodes, oh and when we discover how to make force fields, yay, lets make one around mars and put air in it, then create artificial gravity, then once that is done, make the force field only turn on when there is going to be solar radiation or solar winds. And the biosphear will be what they first do probibly.

well, I can foresee this thread going down the path to perdition's flames, so I'll give it a boost