A lot less blue too... Hmmmm....
(midwest.social)
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Science MemesBy the way, speaking of changed colours of planets: if you haven't been keeping up with the latest news in space imagery and want a real mindbender, check out what has recently happened to Neptune. You may have been thinking, ooooh, what an enthralling blue planet! - bzzzzzt, turns out it's a pretty bland and boring gas giant, the colours were exaggerated on purpose because otherwise you can't see shit.
This truly is the worst timeline. Next, they'll tell us Uranus isn't gassy too.
I like the pale blue representation, reminds me of blue jade or some old seaglass.
Second picture looks smogier and more polluted
Well the second pic is also at night with a high iso and long exposure plus it's digital so there's a lot more noise going on.
Speaking in generic terms, film is way more forgiving of over exposure and digital is way more forgiving of under exposure. A fast lens is always king, but once you hit parity on that I would personally take digital for low light any day.
Copy that, my knowledge of the specifics of digital vs analog is about exhausted just from what i posted so i appreciate the added information!
The magnetic poles must be moving substantially. Africa has rotated almost 90 degrees in a few short decades!
The blue Marble was also photographed "upside down." We tend to rotate it because the shape of Africa is apparent and familiar. The new shot is taken further West and I think closer to the planet so not as much of its surface is visible.
Its all the fracking
Well that’s what happens when you leave it out in the sun
No I think it's because it's cold in space
Nuh uh
There was shrinkage!
I like how you can see the ring/sphere of atmosphere in the new image.
That’s the new smog layer.
*smug
To be fair there was a big hole in the ozone in 1970
Does explain the search for the ring itself's battle.
It's because the Sun is behind it.
No wonder it feels more crowded
The maps were correct, New Zealand doesn’t exist.
Good to know it’s still a flat disc
Amazing how the countries side over it?
And gravity!!
This helps explain why days seem shorter as we age, the Earth is spinning faster due to the conservation of angular momentum. The days are literally shorter.
fun fact, days have actually been getting longer pretty much since formation of earth (well moon to be correct). reason iirc is that moon is slowly moving away from earth, and this results in some dynamics changing and as a result earth spins slower. like billions of years ago, it was closer to 23 hours.
ps - very rusty memory right now, should have skipped writing instead of half borked fact
Shhh! Don't let Big Clock know that we are on to them.
Jerryyyy, Earth is a planet!
That's because the internet made the world smaller.
It's getting old, I guess /s
Also looks much more sickly (yes, its because they pumped up the brightness lol)
Where did Africa go?? 😧
It's because we're looking at a different side of the planet in the second photo.
Yet but still if you superimpose the second image over the first you’ll see the whole planet had gotten smaller.
In this age of misinformation I realize I can no longer determine if something is a joke.
I am joking.
Thank you. I thought you were but I genuinely had to correct myself and think 'But what if they're not joking?'.
I'm tired.
It's cold out there in space.
Don’t they know about shrinkage?
Plus, that 2d image makes it look flat, like a penny.
"Ha! I knew the Earth was flat!"
Knowledge is power!
It‘s like that one planet in SMG.
It's a conspiracy by Big Earth..
A lot less green, as well.
