O.T. but Beautiful. If it gets locked, somebody move it on.

**budreiser** · 02-14-2003, 11:00 PM

I know this has nothing to do with FS2002 but it is interesting.
It is a night shot of our home planet from the space station.
A friend (former Vietnam Army Pilot) forwarded it to me. Hope
some others appreciate it as much as I did. I guess this is more
apropo for the Outer Marker Forum but I hardly ever visit there.
Someone else is welcome to move it there cause I'm going beddy
bye.

Subject:This is really something else

> >
> > Scroll up and down and back and forth.
> >
> > Stunning!
> >
> > View of the world from the new Space Station
> > It would be a neat idea to have a world map handy to assist in locating
> > more precise locations of points of interest.
> >
> > ***********************************************************
> >
> > Subject: Space Station...
> >
> >
> > The link is below...This is really a sight to behold. The image is a
> > panoramic view of the world from the new space station. It is a night
> > photo with the lights clearly indicating the populated areas.
> >
> >
> > You can scroll East-West and North-South.
> >
> >
> > Note that Canada's population is almost exclusively along the U.S.
> > border.
> >
> > Moving east to Europe, there is a high population concentration
> > along the Mediterranean Coast. It's easy to spot London, Paris,
> > Stockholm and Vienna.
> >
> > Check out the development of Israel compared to that of the
> > Arab countries.
> >
> >
> > Note the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent". After
> > the Nile, the lights don't come on again until Johannesburg. Look at the
> > Australian Outback and the Trans-Siberian Rail Route.
> > Moving east, the most striking observation is the difference between
> > North and South Korea.
> >
> > Note the density of Japan.
> >
> >
> > What a piece of photography. It is an absolutely awesome picture
> > of the Earth taken from the Boeing built Space Station last November on
> > a perfect night with no obscuring atmospheric conditions. Your kids
> > wil probably likeit as well. Click here:
> >
> > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...s_dmsp_big.jpg
> >
> >
> > If that doesn't work for you, just copy and paste
> >
> > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...s_dmsp_big.jpg

**GreenMachine** · 02-15-2003, 12:00 AM

:-eek
Breathtaking!

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**bhebert** · 02-15-2003, 12:36 AM

Nice picture, but there was no reason to show the same picture of that size twice in the same post. It eats up a lot of bandwidth for slow modems.

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