I can't find one photo of Antartica from space that isn't a composite image or cgi. Not one
>>16493460Post screenshots of the CGI
>>16493460>compositeThere isn't a satellite high enough to take it on a single photo so they just stich several photos, just like google maps
>>16493460Will you accept a Polaroid?
>>16493564no pun intended
>>16493460play ksp and you may find out for yourself why that is
>>16493460Lets join a band of brothersAnd para motor a cartographic expedition of the poles and donate it to googleAnd than finallyProject google maps into azimithal equidistant with qgis
>>16493504>there isn't a satellite high enoughYes there is...>>16493581I literally have and I don't know what you mean
>>16493637We have multiple polar orbiting satellites. Just because it takes a shitload of Delta V to get there compared to equatorial doesn't mean they don't exist.
>>16493643Post a pic of antartica
>>16493460“antarctica” doesnt exist. if it did, it would be a tourist attraction worth billions of dollars per year
>>16493460wait for fram 2
>>16493703no it wouldn't. Iceland is the closest thing we have and it's barely over a billion euro a year in tourism. people really don't wanna go to very cold out of the way places where there's nothing to see but birds huddling across rocky plains
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>>16493460try google.
>>16494039Not OP but that's pretty cool. Where'd you find it?
>>16493460the blue marble has a significant chunk of antarctica. does that count?
>>16494039Would still suspect this to be a composite but cool image nonetheless.
>>16494234dont think its a composite because the Galileo probe wasn't flying over the same place over and over to build the image up. They did construct some mosiacs, for example of our Moon, using multiple images from a single flyby, but this is done its clearly marked as a composite.The one of Antarctica here >>16494039 is not described as being a mosaic. you will see what i mean if you take a look through this image sethttps://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Galileo?start=600
>>16494248thanks for the link fa.m
a sadly abandoned thread
>>16493460It might seem weird that such images aren't that common, considering that polar orbits are commonly used by earth imaging satellites. However such satellites use low orbits and narrow angle optics, as they are used to get high resolution images of the surface. As such they can't fit Antarctica on a single image. There's little point in having a fish eye lens on such a satellite
>>16497375>little pointHow about because I want to see itIt pisses me off that there are so many space missions to the moon and shit and all we get it a couple dreadful photos often in black and white fuckkkkk
>>16497767just launch your own satellite
>>16493460>i have no clue how satellites work
>>16498358That's your line bud
>>16498358satellites, how do they work?
>>16494039wow so big, i want all that ice for myself. All of the ice for me, at the same time
>>16498634it put it all in a big glass of bourbon
