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As a scientist with college degree in Astronomy, minor in Physics and Mathematics, I was appalled to find folks telling outright falsities and presenting bad science to bolster suspicion of our known accepted reality - that the Earth is a beautiful blue globe.

This blog clearly shows scientific proofs that debunk everything that flat Earth proponents claim.  Here we also expose the comments those YouTube video channels delete, because they don't want you to see them.

The Earth is not flat.  That claim is a conspiracy theory perpetrated by ignorant people who have ulterior personal motives and agendas.

The Earth is a beautiful blue spheroid globe spinning on an axis 23.5° once each day, and orbiting the Sun every 365.25 days.

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GeoShifter (Randy Robichaud) - NASA mission imagination


Dear GeoShifter,

Fact check = YOU FAIL, by implying that "stitched them together" somehow makes real space photos a video CGI lie.

Here is my complete analysis of how it's done. Thousands of individual ISS photo were put together to make this RT video.

"Epic footage of Earth from the International Space Station" Published on Oct 14, 2015

The International Space Station (ISS) released stunning footage of Earth captioning the images with the epic title "Planets Rising" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1gP5Gy7Q24

a) The process of creating the video began with images found on http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov

The images were taken from the ISS using the EHDC (External High Def Camera), custom built for ISS by NASA engineering, using the Nikon D4 as the optics base.

A sequence of images taken seconds apart is used to create the time lapse phenomenon. Here is just a short list of them...

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-TextTable.pl?results=145291680734562

These two ISS045-E designated images are from the October 3, 2015, ISS Expedition 45 flight.

These two particular images were take a few seconds apart
ISS045-E-46410 at 23:07:53 GMT
ISS045-E-46411 at 23:08:03 GMT

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS045&roll=E&frame=46410

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS045&roll=E&frame=46411

b) My forensic analysis of one of these images indicates that it is indeed pristine, and has not been digitally altered in any way.

frame
Filename: ISS045-E-40951.JPG
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS045&roll=E&frame=40951

MD5: aa65406cbc42f0f10acb3d37a316721f
SHA1: 8c9f93ef03a04b226412198f8b7addb131535cdd
SHA256: 903a0a5e86a19ec7225e670664a771a9c08e38ce8699bca270264db6d30edd09

If you want go ahead and convert these values from hexadecimal to base ten, and then check the hash totals. You will find that they match = original image, not altered in any way.

Make NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model Name NIKON D4
Software Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (Windows)
XMP Toolkit Adobe XMP Core 5.5-c021 79.155772, 2014/01/13-19:44:00
Creator Tool NIKON D4 Ver.N.10
Raw File Name iss045e040951.NEF
History Action saved, saved, derived, saved, saved, converted, derived, saved
Field Of View 65.5 deg
Focal Length 28.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 28.0 mm)
Image Size 4928x3280
Lens ID AF Nikkor 28mm f/1.4D

c) So, starting with the series of images from (eol.jsc.nasa.gov), Riccardo Rossi ISAA (Italian Space and Astronautics Association) used them along with his software to create his video...

on AstronautiCAST...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfQHF87vY0s as title "ISS Timelapse - Planets Rising (03 Ottobre 2015)"
Published on Oct 8, 2015

Original time lapse by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA) - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License -
Raw photos courtesy of http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ achieve

Music: Cosmic Tingles (piano version) by Lee Rosevere is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee...

Riccardo Rossi correctly acknowledged that the source images were courtesy of NASA. He also identified the images from ISS Expedition 45. RT did none of that.

Riccardo Rossi used the raw images from NASA and software to create the time lapse phenomena for his video. He also made some color changes and enhancements that make the land areas more visible. So he also altered the original raw images.

d) The RT video is a knockoff of the original by Riccardo Rossi. The music is gone along with the identification of image date and time, and ISS Expedition 45. This could probably be considered to be plagiarism and a violation of copyright laws by RT, because they presented it as their own creation.

View the RT video at time mark 1:01
... it is the same as original NASA image
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS045&roll=E&frame=40951

You can clearly see that the coloring has been modified in the video to make the land area appear lighter at night. Also the stars are more enhanced in the video that on the original NASA image. In the video other editing modification such as texture and color hues have been made with software.

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Update: July 4, 2020

One of the Best Pictures Ever Taken of ISS from the Ground. You Can Even See the Canadarm2, by Nancy Atkinson of universetoday.com

(https://www.universetoday.com/146830/one-of-the-best-pictures-ever-taken-of-iss-from-the-ground-you-can-even-see-the-canadarm2/)

Excerpt:

"Astrophotographer Thierry Legault is renowned for his amazing shots of spacecraft transiting the Sun. He’s now outdone even himself.

On June 24 and 25, 2020, Legault captured the International Space Station passing in front of the Sun with such clarity, even the station’s robotic arm, the Canadarm2, is clearly visible. The docked SpaceX Dragon capsule can also be seen. These latest masterpieces from Legault are the most detailed ISS images captured from Earth yet.

Legault credited some new equipment for the increased clarity.

“My new CFF apochromatic triplet 8″ refractor I bought 2 weeks before the shots seems to be optically very good,” he told Universe Today via email. “Focusing is critical and is always a challenge, especially nowadays because there are no sunspots. I had to focus on the solar limb, and fortunately, at the distance of the ISS, there’s no difference in focusing between the Sun and the ISS.”

Legault said the camera he uses, and Olympus E M-1 II, has the fastest continuous shooting: 60 frames per second in 20 Mpix Raw mode. But he has less than a second to capture the space station’s pass in front of the Sun....."

(Please read this full article at the URL posted above)

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Website of Thierry Legault - http://www.astrophoto.fr/

YouTube video at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bku76sBWwME


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Solar transit of the ISS on June 24, 2020 showing the SpaceX Crew Dragon docked to the station. The multiple exposures were taken in less than a second, at 60 frames per second. Credit and copyright: Thierry Legault. 



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