NASA

Amp34 · 29 Jan 2008 at 23:40

yantorsen said:
is it? I've only just started posting in the forum so I wouldn't know.

With over 2000 posts and 6 months since registration?

Pull the other one...

yantorsen · 30 Jan 2008 at 00:05

Amp34 said:
With over 2000 posts and 6 months since registration?

Pull the other one...

i meant the photography sub forum

SteveOBHave · 30 Jan 2008 at 08:41

They aren't shopped - you should be familiar with chromatic aberration - that accounts for the edging, the other thing to remember is that in space there is no particular matter to diffuse light - it's hard and direct so the photos are going to be ultra clear.

Oh and the 'shadow' on the shoes - something that seems to be a on a few shoes - soles.

Stop being a diddle and appreciate them for what they are - stunning photos.

I especially like #2 - I can almost see my old house from there - bottom of the North Island New Zealand.

Helium_Junkie · 30 Jan 2008 at 15:08

Most excellent images indeed

I don't think theyre shopped, and I don't hold with the conspiracy theoretards

^^Gord^^ · 30 Jan 2008 at 15:22

I can't understand why NASA doesn't release more images. They have moaned for years that interest, and therefor funding, has been on the decline. If they released a small selection of photos from each mission they generate more interest.

Messiah Khan · 30 Jan 2008 at 15:28

^^Gord^^ said:
I can't understand why NASA doesn't release more images. They have moaned for years that interest, and therefor funding, has been on the decline. If they released a small selection of photos from each mission they generate more interest.

There's a fair few here; http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

I stumbled across a part of the Nasa website once that had a library of what must have been millions of photographs, covering all aspects of the corporation. No idea what the link was though.

SteveOBHave · 30 Jan 2008 at 15:33

Messiah Khan said:
There's a fair few here; http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

I stumbled across a part of the Nasa website once that had a library of what must have been millions of photographs, covering all aspects of the cooperation. No idea what the link was though.

Yeah they have a massive Database of images but the majority are from past missions and of a relative low quality compared to these ones. They are of great interest to astronomers and the like but not really for the general public. Still you can't go past the beauty in some of them.

SDK^ · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:29

I was at the Kennedy Space Centre last November - A great place, highly recommended if you're in Florida.

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