One of the most reproduced images in history - The Blue Marble CREDIT:NASA 1972 - ThreadSky

redditspaceviewes.bsky.social • 45 days ago

One of the most reproduced images in history - The Blue Marble

CREDIT:NASA 1972

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haffay.bsky.social•44 days ago

The marble is beginning to crack, which, imo, is not a bad thing. Because humans don't deserve any of it.

precaryus.bsky.social•30 days ago

By the pure luck of location, type of sun, chemical makeup, the right size and distance, a spinning molten core and a quite a few other fortunate circumstances do we exist. There is no Earth 2.0.

shashika.bsky.social•45 days ago

Iconic!

triboman.bsky.social•45 days ago

That's all we got...we better start standing up for it.

colforbin88.bsky.social•45 days ago

Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity

route60plus.bsky.social•45 days ago

Including the U.S.A., to be led by someone who has “lost his marbles”…

bigyeti-tech.bsky.social•45 days ago

Another of the most reproduced images ever. 😊

juhneenhowe.bsky.social•45 days ago

Too bad humans exist and are destroying the place

thethew.bsky.social•45 days ago

Why are there never any pictures of earth showing the satellites that orbit it?

qmannjd0970.bsky.social•45 days ago

Are you really asking that question or are you a flat earther? You do realize that a pixel in this picture is more than likely over 7 miles wide right. What satellite is 7 miles wide?

thethew.bsky.social•44 days ago

According to the Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), there were 11 330 individual satellites orbiting the Earth at the end of June 2023

qmannjd0970.bsky.social•44 days ago

and on top of that count that original picture is still the same if taken by the same parameters. It doesn't matter how much stuff is in orbit, nothing is big enough to fill a pixel in the camera.

thethew.bsky.social•44 days ago

I disagree. I think we're surrounded by a trash heap and they cover it up through photo editing.

qmannjd0970.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yes that's the last current count that I've seen. But on top of that, this original picture had less than 150 satellites. And once again not any of those are big enough to even show as a single pixel on that photo.

thethew.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yeah, that's my question. Why don't we ever see any pictures of the satellites? We get all these very close-up pictures of other planets but somehow pictures of earth never show the accuracy of the satellites in orbit.