taken from the columbia

Also you are looking at the sahara, the sun makes it look white cos its reflecting off miles of extremely dry land!

oooooooooo....

I never knew that... :smash:

There we go...

I can go home feeling smug now that ive learnt something new :D

 

(I hope your not telling porkies bud :nono: ...lol)

That picture has been doing the rounds for sometime. This link gives an alterrnative account:

 

http://www.snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp

 

The picture may well have originally come from this resource:

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth

 

Its still a great "picture" though.

 

-Andrew

Google Earth/3D pics are real sattelite pics too though ?

 

I think they are composite :smash: images, with real satellite images over land and mapped images over the sea.

Here's a couple of screenshots from 3D world map. It does the sunset stuff as well.