Photos from the Shuttle

[keithc]

If I saw this in person, I'd probably crap my pants. Absolutely unbelievable.

Shuttle Photos (http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm)

[Vettezuki]

If I saw this in person, I'd probably crap my pants. Absolutely unbelievable.

Shuttle Photos (http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm)

Those are excruciatingly beautiful. Makes me wonder what we could do if we got rid of Social Security, Medicare and all those other Nancy-pants related expenses. ;)

[SexyLxy]

If I saw this in person, I'd probably crap my pants. Absolutely unbelievable.

Shuttle Photos (http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm)

These pictures are so clear! I want the camera they were using!

[SeanPlunk]

These pictures are so clear! I want the camera they were using!

I know, I've never seen pictuers that vivid before.

[CorruptCulture]

It was a cell phone camera. :)

Anyone figure out what landmass that is in the second picture? Maybe Greenland?

[keithc]

I know, I've never seen pictuers that vivid before.

That was exactly what I thought when I first saw them. Some of them actually look fake. I'm sure it's some crazy 50 megapixel camera that costs a few hundred thousand. I mean, if they spend $10k on a toilet seat, what are the chances they kept the camera under 6 figures? (I know it's a myth, but I'm sure it's not far off)

And as a side note, I would love to have a picture like the 7th one where it was just me waiving to the camera. I'd frame it and put it up somewhere in my house and as I showed people I'd be like, "Oh that's just me...in space."

[keithc]

...Anyone figure out what landmass that is in the second picture? Maybe Greenland?

I was wondering that myself... I don't think it's Greenland just because the water along the coast looks pretty clear and a much lighter/brighter blue, which leads me to believe it's somewhere further south. I could be wrong though.

[Vettezuki]

I was wondering that myself... I don't think it's Greenland just because the water along the coast looks pretty clear and a much lighter/brighter blue, which leads me to believe it's somewhere further south. I could be wrong though.


It's much smaller than Greenland. It could be any number of thousands of islands in the Pacific . . . or maybe somewhere else. Great way to spend hours on Google Earth doing pattern matching.

[CorruptCulture]

And as a side note, I would love to have a picture like the 7th one where it was just me waiving to the camera. I'd frame it and put it up somewhere in my house and as I showed people I'd be like, "Oh that's just me...in space."

A la Homer Simpson and Grimey. :lol:

[SeanPlunk]

Grimey FTW :D

From that episode:

Grimey: "My God, he eats like a pig."
Lenny: "I'd say he eats more like a duck, pigs tend to chew."

:laugh:

[vonage6591]

The south island of new zeland. winner?

http://motorgen.com/pic/data/500/Space_shots_.JPG

http://motorgen.com/pic/data/500/space_shots_2.JPG

http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASApix02.jpg

[keithc]

The south island of new zeland. winner?


Looks like it.