The amazing and cool photo thread

[DaddyVDUB]

Et!

Pretty clever .

 

[homeforsummer]

Probably thought it was a firefly. Observation fail.

A couple from the NASA Earth Observatory website. It used to be my most-visited website but they changed it a year or so back and I forgot to return after the redesign.

First pic is a view of Dubai at night. It's equally spectacular on the ground at night, though unfortunately I've never had the freedom to really take a good look around at night.

Next, some solar towers near Seville in Spain. These use hundreds of mirrors to collect sunlight which the facing tower collects to produce energy.

Finally, Chernobyl in the Ukraine. I've seen other photos taken at ground level and it's spooky now. Nature is already starting to reclaim the town with plants breaking through the roads and bears wandering in and out of the buildings...

Link

 

[Joey D]

Why is the water red in Seville?

 

[NISM0_SKYLINE]

I want to go to Prypiat so bad. It would be so cool to see a totally abandoned town.

 

[Sureboss]

Concentration of sunlight in the area due to the mirrors?

 

[Frizbe]

Why is the water red in Seville?

I'm thinking it might be a spectra overlay of hydrogen maybe, thats the only thing I can think of that would make it appear red, plus the red looks over layed to me.

 

[homeforsummer]

I think it's an artificial-colour image - many of the NASA ones seem to be.

If not, a reddish colouring in soil and by extent water usually means Iron.

 

[Prosthetic]

Likely similar to the salt ponds here in the SF Bay.

 

[Joey D]

I got off my bum and looked around the website and this is what it had to say about the red.

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this false-color image of PS10 and PS20 on August 29, 2009. Red indicates vegetation, shades of brown indicate bare ground and/or fallow fields, and blue indicates water. Human-made structures appear in shades of blue-gray. PS10 and PS20 appear as approximate circles punctuated by towers on their southern ends. Although less conspicuous than the circular arrays, rectangular arrays of mirrors operate south of the towers.

 

[TwistedNav]

I want to go to Prypiat so bad. It would be so cool to see a totally abandoned town.

You may already know of this site - really worth a look for an insight into post-apocalypse Chernobyl:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

 

[TheCracker]

You may already know of this site - really worth a look for an insight into post-apocalypse Chernobyl:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

"50 thousand people used to live there, now it's a ghost town."

 

[Azuremen]

This has been on half of my blogs, so I'm surprised none of you spacemen posted it yet:

Is that just a long exposure or something?

A bit late. Okay, a lot late. It is a dual exposure shot, and the bigger deal is that, if I recall, it Jupiter and Venus lined up like that.

Had to dig it back out because it is a neat photo.

 

[homeforsummer]

I got off my bum and looked around the website and this is what it had to say about the red.

My first guess was correct then, false-colour. Many of the NASA images are taken like that when they're anything other than the Astronauts' own photographs. Sometimes they correct or enhance the colours but often they're left as-is.

 

[Touring Mars]

Time lapse of Discovery's launch...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0909/sts128_cooper.jpg​

 

[FoolKiller]

I might have to switch my PS3's wallpaper again.

 

[Diego440]

and now for something completely different:

Summer Stockings!

 

[TB]

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St. Louis Arch 60% completed.

Just ignore the palm trees... And the complete lack of other buildings... And...

 

[Moglet]

and now for something completely different:

Summer Stockings!

Is that shadow from a 'lattice' chair? Or don't you know? It's a cool effect. 👍 I'm loving that time lapse too.

 

[NISM0_SKYLINE]

You may already know of this site - really worth a look for an insight into post-apocalypse Chernobyl:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

Thats so cool. I want to go to so many places but that is on the top, no clue why, just the whole story and place seems unbelievable.

 

[PeterJB]

Thats so cool. I want to go to so many places but that is on the top, no clue why, just the whole story and place seems unbelievable.

Theirs an abandoned Navy Training Camp near where I live live. Just like a mini Pripyat, except less Radiation and more Asbestos!

 

[Diego440]

Is that shadow from a 'lattice' chair? Or don't you know? It's a cool effect. 👍 I'm loving that time lapse too.

Up until I read your comment I thought the shadow was from a hammock

 

[FoolKiller]

I also have a wrought iron patio table with that exact same pattern.

 

[Touring Mars]

Hell, I'm just impressed you could get your legs looking so smooth...

 

[homeforsummer]

Unfortunately though, no matter how far you tilt your head to the left, you still can't see any more

 

[Nicknamealguem]

You killjoy I was still hoping that would work

Up to the amazing, I often ask myself, what I would define as amazing, and today I found it. A great image, with great colors of a beautiful volcano eruption seen from space.

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[Moglet]

That is absolutely stunning

 

[Diego440]

Hell, I'm just impressed you could get your legs looking so smooth...

It's the tropics... you should try it.

awesome pic

Where is that?

 

[exigeracer]

 

[Omnis]

WTF? Why is he so far out from the shuttle/station?

 

[Legendary]

Photoshop?