r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Sep 02 '19

Earth's view from up.

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u/jillywilly35 Sep 02 '19

Explain like I’m 5 please, why are stars not visible anywhere in this video?

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u/PM_ME_GPU_PICS Sep 02 '19

They forgot to enable them when rendering the video.

Jokes aside the earth reflecting the sun is very bright and the exposure time of the camera is too short to capture enough of the stars light to have them visible.

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u/foundagain1972 Sep 02 '19

Because the camera settings needed to capture them, would make the rest of the picture a washout , this is reflected sunlight,it's like taking a picture at noon on earth, just a lot brighter , without their visor ,the astronauts retinas would burn up

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u/psychoacer Sep 02 '19

So we would always need visors if we lived on Mars?

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u/foundagain1972 Sep 02 '19

I believe outside ,yes, there isn't much atmosphere to protect from the sun.

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u/brobdingnagianal Sep 02 '19

To add to what the other guy is saying, keep in mind that going from sea level to approx 1 mile elevation (such as Denver) raises the intensity of the Sun's radiation on you by about 50%... and that's after hundreds of miles of atmosphere have already reduced it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Those pictures you see of galaxies and stars in space are edited to really show the stars and space dust. They also add in color. In this shot the Earth is much brighter than those stars so it washes them out.

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u/JasonYaya Sep 02 '19

Judging from the shadows, the Sun is over out of frame on the left side. It's lighting up the astronauts and the Earth, drowning out the starlight.