A REALLY Amazing Picture

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Truly Amazing.......................



Now,2 know,what this Picture is all so Amazing about,read below:

The photograph was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission, on a cloudless day.

The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting. Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities lights.

The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert.
Note that the lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and that's it's still daylight in Edinburgh, London, Lisbon, and Madrid.

The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness.
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, are the Cape Verde islands.

Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during Daytime and night time.

To the left, on top, is Greenland, totally frozen

* Dunno,if it had sum PS work as well!,received in e-mail!
 
pffft.. it's a hoax

Source of the info: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Sunset from Space)

Claim: Photograph taken from the Space Shuttle Columbia shows sunset over Europe and Africa.

Status: False.

Origins: The contradictory explanations of this photograph's origins given in the accompanying text are the first clue that something's amiss here -- this image can't have been both "taken by the crew on board the Columbia" and "taken via satellite."

Actually, the notation about this image's having been "taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission" was added only after the fatal break-up of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its re-entry on 1 February 2003. Well before then, this picture had been circulating as a photograph "taken via satellite, on a cloudless day."

Although this image does accurately depict the landforms described and the positioning of lighted cities to the right of the day-night terminator line, it doesn't represent an actual Earth view one might see from space. (The topography of the ocean floor would not be visible in a genuine photograph, for example.) Real satellite images or data may have been used in its creation, but this photograph is either a composite formed by merging multiple images from different sources (the same technique used to create the stunning iceberg photograph), or a completely artificial picture generated by synthesizing data into a representative image.
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Its bull crap.
I cannot see any clouds in the pic.

Besides, the pic suggests that it was summer season (for northern hemisphere).

Columbia's last mission in summers?

*rolls eyes*
 
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