What does it feel like to orbit planet Earth?

A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears green in these images, and shows vegetation. The images are the largest whole disk images of our planet, the resolution is 1 kilometer per pixel. The images are "masked" by a circular barrier that blocks out the light of the Sun and other stars. This is to prevent damage to the camera by exposure to direct sunlight. City lights are not visible because they are thousands of times less bright than the reflection of sunlight off the Earth. The images have been interpolated (blended) to create a smooth animation.

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[dixlofozius]

Конечно. Он же геостационарный. По отношению к планете его положение неизменно.

[Joshayoi]

what it feels like to chew 5 gum....

[Skipper24x7]

пиздешь и провокация, это графика, видно даже.

[nutmugable]

What it feels like to pull the gum from your mouth and make it into a long string....

[MrThomaschannel]

Kurtjmac

[Esteban Becerra]

Feels like I'm fixed instead of orbiting



[christopher barnhart]

do you even understand the concept of "orbit"?

[RulerOfSlides]

It's kind of a weird thing to think that yesterday was 44 years since humans saw this with their own eyes (Apollo 8), and the last time a man gazed upon the full disc of the Earth was 40 years ago (Apollo 17).

Now all we have to capture this magnificence is a robotic surrogate.

We've really gone backwards as a species, haven't we?

[3DPlanets]

It isn't actually perfectly still. The higher things are, the longer they take to orbit. If you're at the right altitude, you'll take exactly 24 hours to orbit Earth once, and the same side of the planet will always be facing you.

[1GodOnlyOne]

All they have to do is stop moving it.

[1GodOnlyOne]

It appears that the earth is perfectly still in space.

[TheGeocentrist]

Got it. Thanks.