NASA spacecraft see Earth winking from 18 million km away!

[MehTunesYuhFeel]

Yea that was the bombing of Hiroshima

[jamesXmodz]

i im gonna say sumthin no one has ever said whatthehellwouldisayparearthdo­lia

[Erik3094]

/watch?v=Ip7bYgWY7iw

[ion5061]

PAREARTHDOLIA! First person to say it in all caps!

[HertzSine]

"Parearthdolia" 4TH!!1!...hey not too bad for a new word...BUT I am the FIRST to Capitalize it!

[elevenby2]

18 million km away? 12 AU away?? are u real? I'm not an astronomer but I believe that the sun would wink at that distance! and the earth would not appare at all!!!!

[osho2012]

@elevenby2 --Sorry, but y'all need to research your numbers and (learn to) do the math... 1 AU = 93 million miles = 150 million km

[Paiste402]

you can see my dick from here, thats what the second glint was. Light reflecting off my immense man penis

[effinallister]

this is fuckin stupid



[HaterNationOfficials]

@effinallister LOL :D

[arkor7]

i'm there somewhere.

[jainsworr]

I'm not sure... what am I looking at exactly? I don't see the "wink".

[MultiSteveB]

I wonder now if it is due to the surface of the large oceans being "rougher" than smaller seas & lakes because they can support longer (and more) wave lengths.

I spotted 6 "winks", and only one (at 00:10 video/19:49 satellite time) that might have been off of an Ocean.

00:09 (18:34)

00:10 (19:49)

00:15 (03:19)

00:17 (06:04) - very faint

00:17 (06:19)

00:19 (08:34) - big, from northern Mediterranean Sea?

[VicTheMouth]

amazing how different earth is from any other planet in the solar system

[applestar27]

couldnt see shit..what the hell was it..lol

[lazarsavic]

super [serbia]

[caetanojulio]

It's pretty subtle, you won't see a cartoony glint, all you're gonna see is an "yellowing" effect on the water.

Even if it's not that spectacular, it's beautiful

[Lucasones]

i saw that,i dont understand why u don't see it...just keep looking in circle all the time

[MultiSteveB]

Why don't we see a "glint" from the oceans when the circled area crosses them?

[Spoonfoon]

@MultiSteveB Because the Earth is moving relative to the sun, so the sun wouldn't have been in the right place earlier in the day...

[MultiSteveB]

@Spoonfoon I's sorry, but that doesn't make sense to me. The video is a ~24 hour period, which limits how much the Earth could have moved. Not to mention that the spacecraft is also moving relative to both the Earth and Sun? As far as I know, the placement of the black circle is due to pure geometry: the relative location of all 3 objects and the curvature of the Earth. It stayed pretty fixed in the view, which is as it should be since the geometry changed very little over that 24 hrs.

[jesta331]

watched it quite a few times, dont see anything. :-(

[MTStingray]

Great vid of the Earth! Always loved looking at the humans birth place from above in photos.

[DeltronZero87]

0:19 seconds at a certain area, what is that?

[NintendoRick]

clowd

[Coti76]

@DeltronZero87 That looks like a huge explosion :D

Looks like it's from turkey.. did half the country explode at some point? :P

[retrogamer500]

The glint happens over California at around 10 seconds into the video.

[Ripley747]

@retrogamer500 It looked like a 2nd glint was around 17 seconds into the vid, but not sure about that.

[BipedalHumanoid]

Didn't see any glints :-(

[qarnos]

I had to watch it 4 times to see it and now I'm wondering if it's some kind of parearthdolia ;)

[snyper182000]

@qarnos Lol. Google "parearthdolia" and you're the only person on the internet who ever used that. Awesome. Kudos.

[lolatmyaccounts]

@snyper182000 Youre the 2nd person in the whole internet to say parearthdolia

And im 3rd

[Dexxxter7780]

@snyper182000 Ya I saw that to, really the only thing that came up other than the utube posts. Whats the deal with this word?

[RaVexChainz]

@Dexxxter7780 It's all a conspiracy man!!!!

[Dexxxter7780]

@RaVexChainz What is?

[zambi007i]

@snyper182000

actually jamesxmodz used that word. qarnos just inquired as to what it means! anyway, even a google search on this 'word' shows up this page. LOL ;-[)

[chrisrox62]

@snyper182000 wtf is a parearthdolia, i searched it too



[Dexxxter7780]

@qarnos whats parearthdolia?

[RegretfullyYes]

@qarnos *Pareidolia 

[TheCentrix]

I like astronomy, but I think space is a scary place to be. Imagine being in space, maybe this distance from the earth or more (or even closer too actually) and all you see is black skies, stars, earth and nothing else... I think that's pretty scary, nontheless i'd like to go to space once.

[AgentEnigma]

Is it true women like a man with a big telescope?

[dorbie]

Is this a desperate attempt to justify ongoing funding?

Surely if a mission has ever run it's course it's this one....

Time to stick a fork in it and have these engineers go do something more useful....

[cjgodman]

@dorbie

Justify ongoing funding?

It's up there taking photos and data anyway. It's costing nothing more to keep getting them.

[dorbie]

@cjgodman

Extended missions are not free. That's not to say the are not worthwhile or good value.

[cjgodman]

@dorbie

It's 18 million km from earth. It's a little difficult to just unplug it.

As far as I knew the deep impact was tasked for another mission in 2007, after that it's just been floating about taking pictures.

Taking pictures and sending them back is in no way high maintainance. Tasking a man to check them is also pretty cheap.

It's up there anyway so it may as well be utilied.

[dorbie]

@cjgodman

There is no need to unplug it or do anything to discontinue the mission. That's a rather foolish comment. Just the feasibility study for one of the extended missions cost $500,000.

Now in space mission terms that's peanuts, but information I can glean suggest that up to $40,000,000 is being spent on one of the extended missions.

This may be good value, but don't delude yourself that this is free.

[cjgodman]

@dorbie

As the vast majority of the cost is in the launch.

It's more of a waste to launch the bloody thing then just stop using it. It's currently on its way to a second comet that will get more data without the hassile of launching another probe into space.

Whilst it is travelling there it's taking pretty pictures.

[dorbie]

@cjgodman

That depends on the value of the science vs the cost of mission extension. It's true there can be value, but it's also true you get teams looking to keep a project going based on any pretext.

[cjgodman]

@dorbie

It's common sense. More data = good. This is ALWAYS the case in science. You simply cannot have enough data.

There is also a lot of reasearch into extrasolar planets, deep impact is now tasked with this. If we 'shifted the engineers to something else' it would most be in this area.

In space you NEVER throw anything away. You use it until it breaks apart and cannot continue.

You think this is extended, we are still getting telemetary from Voyager 2, and that was launched in 1977.

[cjgodman]

So in the end your point is an utterly stupid one.

Retasking current equipment already in space > building and sending up new stuff.

It's faster and cheaper.

[dorbie]

@cjgodman

On the contrary, your assignment of arbitrarily high value to any data is what is stupid.

You have not paused for a second to consider the value of the data in terms of novelty or in the context of other missions, or what is taken off the table elsewhere.

It's faster and cheaper, but it's rather arbitrary in the sense that you take what you get as you face diminishing returns It is also often contrived.

I'm all for considering these things on their merits.

[cjgodman]

@dorbie

Ok, what do YOU suggest they do with the deep impacter probe now its up there?

[newcoyote]

@dorbie Maybe you should take your false virtue and educate yourself instead. Do you really think this 20 second clip is representative of the actual purpose? Weak.

[dorbie]

@newcoyote

No I did not think it was the core function, it's pure NASA PR and of limited utility. Deep Impact is already on an extended mission.

[newcoyote]

@dorbie So you don't see the value of PR? Continuing to put out items of interest keeps public interest up. It's what we want, at least I do. Sorry you have trouble identifying the value of that.

[dorbie]

@newcoyote

It has value for NASA funding I'm sure. Don't attack me for pointing that out.

[newcoyote]

@dorbie You are writing comments in a public forum. When someone disagrees and points out why, it is not attacking. It is discussion. What did you expect? I just love how when someone is called on a weak argument they resort to the red herring of "Don't attack me." I hope you are better informed , just don't whine about having your feelings hurt. You sound like a conspiracy theorist.

[dorbie]

@newcoyote

Clearly you protest too much. My feelings aren't hurt despite your ongoing tantrum.

I'm not the one having difficulty distinguishing between the value of PR, the value of real science and the value of job creation. It's an old problem at NASA and it's pom pom waving adherents.

Conspiracy theorist? Now you're really scraping the barrel.

Mission extensions often have diminishing returns or questionable pretexts, despite your bluster.

[newcoyote]

@dorbie Grow up.

[dorbie]

@newcoyote

That's the pot calling the kettle black.

[newcoyote]

@dorbie If that make you feel better go ahead and use the rubber and glue defense. But man, you argue like a creationist or something. What are you, 12?

[dorbie]

@newcoyote

Still raising the level of the discussion? That's not even a bad analogy. Don't assume your casual interest in science imbues you with intellectual superiority over anyone you falsely assume is not, nor do you have the remit to lecture anyone on the poor behavior you so readily exhibit.

[theshadowify]

@dorbie Before I slam someone that makes a stupid comment, I check their channel page to see just how stupid they are. But when I check you page, I see no such stupidity. So I am puzzled to see such a stupid comment coming from you.

[dorbie]

@theshadowify

I'll take that as a back handed compliment. There was a lot of assumption in my post but it's not that far off the mark in general terms. Once something's up there there's no end to the attempts to keep a mission alive for all sorts of contrived reasons. I'm now better informed about the multiple extended missions for this probe.

[frededison]

Someone send the spacecraft command to "zoom in & enhance." ;-)

[47f0]

By way of reference, this was taken from a distance roughly 1/3 the distance to Mars (OK, Mars at closest approach). So yeah, these actually are pretty remarkable images.

[freedom0f5peech]

glint off water? what water? the water on earth? the water on the moon? what do you mean by glint? what does a glint look like? I looked into the little black circle and see nothing... what am I looking for? please help

[theshadowify]

@freedom0f5peech As the Earth spins you will see the reflection of the Sun off the water. It comes off the lakes, but it does not come off the Ocean for some reason. You have to be fast because the video has the Earth spinning so fast that the glimmer last but a fraction of a second. It is there, but if you blink, you will miss it.

[dorbie]

@theshadowify

It does come off the ocean but the specular reflection is more diffused than on the lakes. This will be due to the larger waves on the ocean perturbing the surface and increasing average surface roughness.

[gph61]

Are they using a super telephoto on the camera?

Obviously I have no reference to judge this against but the earth looks really large for the spacecraft being 18 million km away.

[theshadowify]

@gph61 Yes, they must be using some super telescope. I was also surprised to see such a good picture of the Earth at 18 million miles away.

[simbeau]

All I see is facepalm

[smeezh]

the stupid video ad keeps fucking my vision.

[TheFluffyDuck]

I must be blind I cant see it

[554466551]

Woah! We are not alone...

Wait. What?

[MisterDax]

Wnking? Looks more like an eyeroll :)

[cptobvious64]

This is a sign that I should not go to the roof of Walmart and shoot people tomorrow

[tomaselvis]

Fun!

[truvelocity]

I had to watch it three times in order to see what he was talking about. It reflects a shiny glint or reflection. I thought it was just clouds passing by. I need my glasses.

[xoANONiMUSox]

maybe people are taking pictures with their flash cameras....lol

[fallbread]

cool

[godsend420]

finaly a new vid 5*

[FLPanthersandMarlins]

cool!!

[geroldkid]

I see, that's pretty neat.

[FlashFizz]

I expect a detailed explanation on his blog sometime soon.

[Gitars5]

0:10 and 0:15

[AtheistCitizen]

While very cool..it was done more impressively, otherworldly on Titan, with a news release just last month:

Google: "Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan"

or for a slight reformatting:

saturn[dot]jpl[dot]nasa[dot]go­v

[fwd]news[fwd]newsreleases[fwd­]

newsrelease20091217 [fwd]

[libertyfalls]

One of Phil's biggest fans but I have no clue what this video is supposed to be. I watched it several times and I dont see anything...

[AtheistCitizen]

a sattelite view of the reflection off surface water

[HKragh]

@libertyfalls If you look closely within the black circle, you'll see the reflection of the sun whenever it hits the water surface. Specially when the reflectio n hits the Middle Seas north of Africa, There is some clear sightings. Look here: 0:19.

So... nice....

[HKragh]

@libertyfalls Actually it's more like 0:18 :)

[tehbertl]

It's called the Blue Marble for a reason. :)

[CousinoMacul]

I had to watch it twice, but Kewl!

[777Skeptic]

Someone 'splain.

[SaltyCaptianEcuador]

wat ?

[NTMateria]

Uhmm where?

[CanadienAtheist]

Cosmically cool!

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

???

[megs97216]

Cool.

[sketchbookies]

yeah lol