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RuGlu6
01-08-2009, 05:15 AM
http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/garbage-3353/0/

About 4,600 launches have been made since the first launch of Earth's man-made satellite in 1957. Nowadays, there are about 6,000 artificial satellites orbiting the planet
Matt
01-08-2009, 03:00 PM
http://english.pravda.ru/img/idb/photo/3-1799.jpg

Can that be a photo? Wouldn't you have on the moon to get that much perspective and that wide an angle? Would you be able to see space junk from that far away?
Whatigot
01-08-2009, 03:12 PM
pravda.ru is like the equivalent of the national inquirer online...
Have a look at some of their other content, lots of embellishment and fluff.

I.E, some of those pieces of space junk would be bigger than my house, maybe even than Coquitlam...
Chowder
01-08-2009, 03:35 PM
Is this not the shot of Earth from Wall-E the Movie.

Chris
Whatigot
01-08-2009, 04:32 PM
Is this not the shot of Earth from Wall-E the Movie.

Chris

+1

but give us a few years, we're definitely on the right track to make this a reality.
justinl
01-09-2009, 01:18 AM
im sure it will happen eventually, but this photo is just... ridiculous. satellites are not the size of cities.
BC Mosaic
01-09-2009, 04:55 AM
What no clouds? I guess they all huddled together on the other side.
Here's a more interesting real image:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070916.html
Keri
01-09-2009, 05:07 PM
What no clouds? I guess they all huddled together on the other side.
Here's a more interesting real image:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070916.html


That's an amazing picture!! I found this one on this site as well

Does anyone know the explanation as to why sometimes the moon apprears so much closer or larger than other times?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/saguaroMoon_seip.jpg
Chowder
01-09-2009, 05:32 PM
The reason is good Photography.
Keri
01-09-2009, 05:46 PM
The reason is good Photography.



:lol:
Parker
01-09-2009, 05:49 PM
What no clouds? I guess they all huddled together on the other side.
Here's a more interesting real image:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070916.html


Anyone else look at this picture and start singing the Discovery Channel song or is it just me?

Boom-di-ada / Boom-di-ada
Keri
01-09-2009, 05:53 PM
That commercial makes me smile!!!
sphelps
01-09-2009, 06:40 PM
Does anyone know the explanation as to why sometimes the moon apprears so much closer or larger than other times?

Moon illusion, the moon always seems larger in angular size when it is near the horizon than when it is high in the sky. In addition the moon does vary in angular size due to the eccentricity of its orbit. When the moon is closest to earth it obviously appears larger.
monza
01-10-2009, 03:32 AM
I saw my missing screw driver out there.
BC Mosaic
01-10-2009, 03:48 AM
[QUOTE=Keri
Does anyone know the explanation as to why sometimes the moon apprears so much closer or larger than other times? [/QUOTE]

Read the caption below the photograph in this link:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071025.html
Sphelps has the right answer as well.
Keri
01-10-2009, 05:28 AM
Moon illusion, the moon always seems larger in angular size when it is near the horizon than when it is high in the sky. In addition the moon does vary in angular size due to the eccentricity of its orbit. When the moon is closest to earth it obviously appears larger.

Read the caption below the photograph in this link:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071025.html
Sphelps has the right answer as well.



Thanks! I remember someone giving me an explanation years ago but I couldn't remember it, that's it :)