Stunning NASA and ISS Photo of the Day: Beauty Overload -- So Take a Deep Breath Before Viewing!

ChamorroBible.org ^ | July 21, 2003 | NASA, International Space Station (Expedition 7)

[EnjoyingLife]

Sunset over the Pacific Ocean as seen from the International Space Station (Expedition 7) on 21 July 2003. Above photo via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm (photo 49), see photos 47 and 48 too.

Image link, 1502 x 1002 pixels: http://ChamorroBible.org/images/photos/gpw-200702-49-NASA-ISS007-E-10807-space-sunset-20030721-Pacific-Ocean-medium.jpg

[EnjoyingLife]

Hat tip: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2888055

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

My German son is flying home today to rejoin his German family. He plans on waking up early during the 12 hour flight to take pictures as the sun comes up.

[true_blue_texican]

WOW!

[EnjoyingLife]

Click on the photo.

[zeugma]

That would be even better without the camera artifacts.

[bws53]

Looks like a big dose of Global Clouding OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE BUT THANK GOD BECAUSE I KNOW ALGORE CAN SAVE US!!!!!!!!!

[Recovering Hermit]

Got Photoshop?

[Carl LaFong]

What a stupid , crappy photo....just kidding...going to use it as my desktop.

[tet68]

What is that tube in the upper right?
Booster?

[ml/nj]

Impressive thunderstorm, top left-center!

ML/NJ

[NordP]

Pinging myself to always have reference to this BEAUTIFUL photo...magnificent!!!

[Socratic]

Oh man, that anvil cloud in the center really gives an indication of Earth’s atmosphere.

[Popman]

I'm sorry, that's not earth.

Earth according to the enviromental moonbats is a dark polluted sphere of human virus

[Drango]

That would be even better without the camera artifacts

Perhaps, but the artifacts give it a "real" quality that in a paradoxical way... enhance the photo. IMHO

[bill1952]

LOL! Sun streak.

[EnjoyingLife]

You should see the original photograph. Go to the photo credit for photo 49 at http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm and click on "Original". This is the link you'll find there:

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/LargeImageAccess.pl?directory=EFS/highres/ISS007&filename=ISS007-E-10807.JPG&filesize=2165210

After waiting a few minutes you can download the file from NASA's server. Now, compare the original with the posted photo. Yep, NASA used their image processing magic on that original image and cleaned things up a bit.

[Recall Em All]

Very beautiful indeed!

[Bladerunnuh]

now if we could just do something about the Mexicans... kidding..kidding _{sort of}

[gracesdad]

You know what would be really cool. If we could have a thread with a neat photo like this and no idiotic, off-topic comments like yours.

[RightWhale]

That is a really stupid comment. The population growth of such stupid comments in why I don’t bother to post science threads anymore.