Nasa just published this amazing picture.
This is a very high exposure picture of the nigh side of the world. City lights, auroras, starts and Venus can be seen.
Also, do you realize how thin our atmosphere really is? We’re all living in a small fish tank. Everything we release into that thin layer of air matters.
@Ailantd
Fascinating how noisy the picture is. When I zoomed on the clouds I thought "Well, could be smaller clouds below the resolution of the cameras sensor" but when I zoom on the darkest parts of space in the upper left corner, opposite from where the sun is hidden behind the earth, I see the same noise artefacts in what should be black.
And my guess is that this is caused by the summed up cosmic radiation due to the long exposure.
This, too, tells a story about perspective and what the Van Allen-radiation belt does for us by protecting us from cosmic radiation.
Ailantd Sikowsky🔻
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