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jlapratt
03-06-2003, 02:57 PM
This photo was taken via satellite, on a cloudless day.

Note how the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and how it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, and Madrid.

The sun is still shining on the Straight of Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, the Cape Verde Islands.

Note how huge the Sahara is and can be seen clearly both during daytime and nighttime.

To the left, on top, is Greenland, totally frozen.

Pretty impressive.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid54/p3898fd7a0558ec8acf568989f266612b/fc8b481c.jpg

[ 03-06-2003, 02:58 PM: Message edited by: jlapratt ]
Alan D. Hyde
03-06-2003, 03:01 PM
Stunning, beautiful...

Thanks for the post.

We've got a daughter on that little green island to the upper center left...

Alan
Wild Dingo
03-07-2003, 09:15 AM
Thats brilliant!!! :cool:

Now Ive always wanted a pic of sunrise on the east coast of Aussie while darkness is on the west... that would be so :cool: ... but them buggars are awake before us and asleep before us... mmmm guess we have a longer day eh?... Flamin daylight savings!
Fitz
03-07-2003, 10:18 AM
Hmmm, I wonder what kind of image that is?! It looks like you can see features on the sea floor including the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
TomRobb
03-07-2003, 10:32 AM
Beautiful, just beautiful...
I wonder if the lighter ocean color is the continental shelf. If so a deep ice age would make the Chunnel redundant as the sea retreated into the ice caps. Is the extensive lack of cloud cover rare?
John Bell
03-07-2003, 10:32 AM
Very cool, but not real...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp
Wild Dingo
03-07-2003, 11:00 AM
aaaaaahhh flamin eck John!! spoils all me fun imaginin a pic like that bein real... sigh :(
Alan D. Hyde
03-07-2003, 11:30 AM
OK, so it's a cleverly done composite. Here's another:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/graphics/iceberg.jpg

:D Alan
jlapratt
03-07-2003, 12:12 PM
At least John was kind in not blasting me when he revealed the truth behind the image. I had no idea. In any case, it is beautiful, represents a realistic image and its creator should be praised for a magnificant job (be he a man or the Creator)

Jeff
Nicholas Carey
03-07-2003, 02:46 PM
Originally posted by John Bell:
Very cool, but not real...[snopes link elided]I was wondering about that—the terminator seems awfully abrupt and has an odd curver to it following the coast of Europe. It didn't read properly to my eyes.
John Bell
03-07-2003, 02:55 PM
Oh, I agree it is a neat picture. Nothing to blast anyone about, it's a lovely illustration no matter its provenance. What happened was I was looking for something else in Snopes and ran across their article about this picture, that's all.
John Gearing
03-07-2003, 09:52 PM
NASA rules! City lights of Europe!

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/lights_europe.jpg