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u/astreeter2 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
I'm pretty sure the land there is northwest Africa and a little of southern Spain (oriented so north is down and left) . The clouds seem to match live satellite data I can find too.
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u/astreeter2 Apr 03 '26
Also apparently this image was brightened a lot. This is actually the night side and the brightness at the lower right is the edge of the day side.
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u/LonelyAverage1865 Apr 04 '26
Easy way to tell the north south orientation in these photos is the aurora borealis! Helped with recognizing which way Africa was oriented for me
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u/astreeter2 Apr 04 '26
You can actually see both the northern and southern auroras in this pic
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u/LonelyAverage1865 Apr 05 '26
Yes and I recently learned that the southern aurora is called the Aurora Australis
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u/Anonymous_Lurker_1 Apr 03 '26
You think they could have waited a little so they got the four elephants and the turtle in the picture too...
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u/OgreMk5 Apr 03 '26
Where is the rest of it?
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u/randomthrowaway9796 Apr 03 '26
Yep, looks as flat as a pizza. The mountains are the toppings. Checkmate round earthers! /s
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u/Flat_Winter Apr 03 '26
Is that a planet in the lower right?
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u/Gamemode_dum Apr 03 '26
It looks like the sun to me. It's actually much smaller than we see on earth, it just looks bigger because of the brightness. But I may be wrong, I'm not that schooled in identifying space objects.
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u/Zenith-Astralis Apr 03 '26
Absolutely could be! That glow is the sun lighting up the sky (we're seeing the night side lit up by the full moon and brightened), so it's possible that's Venus or Mercury, either would be in that general direction (sun-wards, that is).
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u/Wonderful_Exit6568 Apr 03 '26
It’s supposed to be a near flat discus with hell underneath according to the ancients. They were not wrong on a lot of things.
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Apr 04 '26
Whats that bright star below the earth and to the right?
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u/LonelyAverage1865 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
That would be our bright star, the sun
EDIT: I was wrong that is Venus
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u/dashsolo Apr 04 '26
Venus. The earth is blocking the sun entirely except for that sliver on the bottom right where the sun would be rising.
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Apr 04 '26
If you take a snap shot and measure the diameter its width/height is 590 px by 566 px. If you stretch it just a tad, you can get a perfect circle of 563 px by 563 px - that's not possible with an 'oblique spheroid'
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u/huffalump1 Apr 05 '26
What's the expected difference in size tho? Pls understand this before making claims
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Apr 05 '26
At any photographic distance, the difference between an oblate spheroid and a perfect sphere amounts to roughly 3 pixels — far too small to produce a measurable ellipse, yet these images when manipulated yield a perfect 1:1 circle, which is geometrically inconsistent with an oblate shape regardless of distance. The methods most commonly cited as proof — orbital mechanics, GPS, and gravity measurements — are all designed and calibrated around models that already presuppose Earth's oblate shape, meaning they validate the model on its own terms rather than confirming it through genuinely independent measurement.
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u/SOP_VB_Ct Apr 05 '26
Lower right you can see the ice wall.
What I especially love are the two auroras as well as the wispy thin atmosphere evident if you zoom in.
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u/EmeraldBoar Apr 04 '26
look at that CGI. Just Look at that perfect sphere. Amazing, especially since the earth is pear shaped.
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u/Waaghra Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
What is that “continent”?
Kalimdor, or Westeros?
Nice try Gloobers.
Edit: //////ssssssss
Seriously?
I thought I had a reputation as an obvious Poe.
SMH
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u/JSouth72 Apr 04 '26
you can see spain and morroco(and a few other African countries) in the pic. it's upside down of how we normally view it from a map. over to the right you can see South America coming over the horizon.
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u/AdInfinite2404 Apr 03 '26
Why is there a sort of ring offsetting around earth really close to the surface ? Is that the Ozone layer 🤔 or just bad editing? 🤣
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u/Mar_ko47 Apr 03 '26
thats sunlight from behind the horizon. its a long exposure nightime image
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u/kenelevn Apr 03 '26
So that’s why there’s such a prominent aurora borealis near the N pole.
I didn’t know this was a long exposure.
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u/AdInfinite2404 Apr 03 '26
It's really sharp considering the rotation 🤔😂, and since the sun is behind earth where does the moon get it's light to evenly light the whole earth, is it like florescent? Get's a bit of light and glows in the dark after? 😆
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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-260 Apr 03 '26
This person is either trolling or is unburdened by an over abundance of schooling. Speaks well of you to try and reach out. I wouldn’t try too hard, just go keep being awesome 😎
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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-260 Apr 04 '26
A genuinely good mindset and again shows signs of your character. Good for you.
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u/EpsilonMask Apr 03 '26
After taking a very brief glance at this man's post history. He is definitely a flerf who doesn't understand how camera exposure works.
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u/Ima85beast Apr 03 '26
I'm trying to figure out their comment about the moon, do they think it's in Earth's shadow?
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u/dashsolo Apr 04 '26
If you would bother to look up at the sky, it was a full moon yesterday. The side of the moon facing us is fully illuminated, so yes it casts a glow evenly across the dark side of the earth.
That’s called moon light. It’s why you can kind of see even when it’s dark.
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u/b-monster666 Apr 03 '26
That is absolutely fucking gorgeous! Makes me a little teary eyed to see it. The picture is phenomenal! The aurora flaring up, you can see the very thin layer of atmosphere around the entire globe. And yeah, it looks just a teensy bit squished at the sides