Artist's Rendering Depicts Active Auroras Over Both Poles

Gearfuse:

A shot of an active Aurora on both poles of our beautiful planet.

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Comments

[edgarcaycedoc]

07:52 PM on 05/13/2010

:The title suggested this was a picture. The first thing I see upon logging on to this story is that it is an "artist's DEPICTION." Bogus.

[vancedecker]

02:55 PM on 05/14/2010

The title has been changed since the earlier posts....

[1jdgriff]

07:30 PM on 05/13/2010

HP. . . . check this out, me thinks you have been duped.

[Jennifer Astle]

06:44 PM on 05/13/2010

Someone needs a lesson in researching skills.

[SolarPowerGuy]

06:44 PM on 05/13/2010

It's very cool looking, but it has to be a composite photo. Auroras are thousands of times dimmer than daylight. There's no way you can capture a single image which brings the aurora above the black level, without failing to wash out the cloud tops in daylight.

[seedoubleyou]

06:42 PM on 05/13/2010

FAKE. Stars would not appear in a photograph of the Earth, as the planet is too bright for the exposure to capture both. Also, no actual picture taken from space can pick up the lights from cities. It looks neat in a Star Wars film, but it's not realistic. How many times have you heard that there's only one or two man-made objects that can be seen from space? And to be honest, I'm not sure which objects CAN be seen. Despite stories to the contrary, even the Great Wall of China can't be seen.

[Artamentous]

06:49 PM on 05/13/2010

Uhm, you can definitely see city lights from space.

http://villageofjoy.com/city-lights-from-space/

[seedoubleyou]

07:14 PM on 05/13/2010

THOSE pictures in your link are very specialized images taken from the shuttle with a special camera. The small photos were then composited into larger photos, WHICH was my original point, that the picture here is a created composite, not an actual photograph of the Earth.

From your link: "In late 2002 and early 2003, astronaut Don Pettit, part of International Space Station Expedition 6, spent some time accumulating spare parts from around the space station, and constructed a device called a barn-door tracker... Pettit’s tracker and nighttime photography techniques produced hundreds of images of cities from around the world that had estimated resolutions (level of detail) of about 60 meters."

[SGMD1]

06:27 PM on 05/13/2010

HP, delete this artist rendering or change the title because right now you're a laughingstock

[cbvani]

06:16 PM on 05/13/2010

This is a third rate photoshop, as someone below said. HuffPo needs an astronomy expert.

[worktheoracle]

06:07 PM on 05/13/2010

that's beautiful ~ now let's figure out how to organize to demand that our elected representatives don't stop us from protecting it in time to cool it before we won't be able to exist on it ~

[vancedecker]

06:06 PM on 05/13/2010

Are you mad? This is most definitely NOT "a new image from NASA." It's a third rate image someone did on photoshop. Furthermore, it's not even a new or original photoshop effect.

[majapa]

05:49 PM on 05/13/2010

Uh, this is an artist's concept, not a picture.

[PunKinPai]

06:06 PM on 05/13/2010

Proof, please.

[majapa]

06:18 PM on 05/13/2010

You're welcome:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/2705146528/

"NASA release date 07/24/2008

Artist's concept of a substorm.

For more information about this image go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/themis_power.html"

[BannedFromCommenting]

05:21 PM on 05/13/2010

What takes a picture from that far away? Isnt that out of the orbit of the earth?

[alienator]

05:46 PM on 05/13/2010

it looks like a textured globe...

[prorsum]

05:53 PM on 05/13/2010

Threre are sattelites in orbit at 25,000 miles.