NASA has been busy. And this time, “They done good”.
What am I talking about, you ask? Well, here ya go:
A higher-resolution image may be viewed here.
In case you don’t recognize at first glance what’s shown above, perhaps this might help.
This article has further details. It’s a relatively short article, and the animated sequence alone found there IMO is worth the time it takes to read the article.
Well done, NASA. Damn well done.
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27 responses to “Score One for NASA”
That’s no moon…
It’s a trap!
…Have a bad bad feeling about this.
it’s photo shopped. 🙂
NASA always does good. Even when they screw up.
NASA: Justine lighting things on fire and seeing how high they’ll go since 1958!
Gaaaahd dammit, I just caught that. For some reason, the iphone decided “just” should be “Justine.” WTF?
The moon photobombs the Earth! I love stuff like this.
Do you notice anything unusual about that photograph and the animated video?
You can clearly see the distinctive shape of the continents of North America and Australia.
But, where’s South America?
All I see there is blue ocean.
You can sort of see the edge of Brazil at the beginning. The rest Im assuming is cloud cover. Ir a giant conspiracy and SA never existed in the first place
Or*
Yep. It’s right there where it’s always been – way farther east of North America than most folks know.
Bingo. The westernmost point in South America is about as far east as Tampa, Florida. Most of that continent is farther east than the easternmost point in CONUS.
That’s something I never knew.
Just looking at maps gives a false impression.
I remember the lesson I had in Geography when I was in fifth grade that taught us about the difference between world maps and how it appears on a globe, good stuff!
I believe Bogota, Colombia, which is in the Western part of SA, is in the same time zone as New York.
Actually, Bogota is close to due south of NYC – but is in the Columbia Time Zone, which is UCT +5 year-round (tropical nation). Since it doesn’t observe DST, it’s currently the same time as CDT, not EDT. It’s the same as EST during the winter.
Which is why the Portuguese ended up with Brazil when the Pope was dividing things up between the Iberians.
Forgot the link (w/map):
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa112999a.htm
Since Obama emptied all of its people on to our shores, NASA airbrushed it out. They call that plausible deniability.
Thankyou….thankyouverymuch.
(I had nothing to do with this project)
It *is* pretty EPIC, if you ask me.
Now, awaiting the conspiracy theorists to start point out the spacecraft wreckage/alien constructions/UFO landing sites…in 3…..2……1.
Oh yeah, right here in the comments 😀 🙄
http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/this-is-earth-and-the-moon-from-a-million-miles-away.htm
“There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.”
(smile)
That’s the way they like it. That’s the way the aliens *want* you to think.
😀 😀
Nope. It’s the 21st-century Nazis from Iron Sky.
Great stuff! Thanks for pointing this out, Hondo.
Way cool Hondo. Thank you! Just fired up the stereo and linked my laptop copy of “Dark Side of the Moon” to it. Now we’ll all know where the aliens are from and where all the Bermuda Triangle folks went.
“….6 minutes until the Death Star is in firing position..”