NASA spacecraft see Earth winking from 18 million km away!

The NASA mission Deep Impact originally slammed a chunk of copper into a comet in 2005, but the spacecraft itself is still out there taking data. From a distance of 18 million kilometers, it looked back at the Earth and took a series of images made into this animation of the Earth making one full rotation. In it, you can see light glinting off of standing water.

Blog post with details: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/a-glint-from-earth/

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Science & Technology

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• Deep Impact
• NASA
• Earth

[snyper182000]

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

[qarnos]

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

[chrisrox62]

@snyper182000 wtf is a parearthdolia, i searched it too

[RegretfullyYes]

@qarnos *Pareidolia

[Dexxxter7780]

@RaVexChainz What is?

[RaVexChainz]

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

[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 ;-[)

[MehTunesYuhFeel]

Yea that was the bombing of Hiroshima

[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?

[Dexxxter7780]

@qarnos whats parearthdolia?

[jamesXmodz]

i im gonna say sumthin no one has ever said whatthehellwouldisayparearthdo­lia

[Erik3094]

/watch?v=Ip7bYgWY7iw