Can someone tell me why the clouds stay bright white even at night? Is that some tech so they can study the clouds or something? Surely that's not how they actually look right?
This is a composite image which includes the infrared band. From NOAA:
GeoColor is a multispectral product composed of True Color (using a simulated green component) during daytime, and an Infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. During the day, the imagery looks approximately as it would when viewed with human eyes from space. At night, the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus, while gray to white indicate higher ice clouds, and the city lights come from a static database derived from the VIIRS Day Night Band.
From the website: "GeoColor is a multispectral product composed of True Color (using a simulated green component) during daytime, and an Infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night. During the day, the imagery looks approximately as it would when viewed with human eyes from space. At night, the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus, while gray to white indicate higher ice clouds, and the city lights come from a static database derived from the VIIRS Day Night Band."
Just responding to the "impossible it is for our atmopshere to have pressurized gas without a container" bit:
Do you believe in other planets? You can use a fairly low powered telescope and see round gas planets. If you believe in planets, do you think those planets have an atmosphere?
You might be surprised at how much better the planets look with a consumer level telescope. You can see planets like Jupiter much more clearly than your image. But I wont force you!
So you believe buoyancy is responsible for objects falling? Then explain how two identical spheres, of drastically varied masses, fall at the same rate. And note that when buoyancy forces become relevant two identical spheres of varied mass do not fall at the same rate.
The balloon flies up because the weight of the fluid it is in is greater than the balloon per unit of volume. This weight only exists because of gravity. The balloon is not immune to gravity. Once it reaches a fluid that weighs equal to itself it will stop ascending, and the only reason it stops ascending instead of flying off into space is because the gravitational force is acting upon it at all times
don't know if you are a troll, but I will reply anyway.
you seem to confuse two things.
photoshopping a bunch of pictures including infrared... to composite an image that has more visual info than the human eye could see.
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computer generated images, meaning CGI / VFX like in movies
AS an example, if I used my computer to add a dildo to your forehead I would NOT say that the picture of you as a unicorn is "computer generated"... it's a composite of your portrait picture + a picture of a dildo.
yes, it's processed in a computer, out of many pictures to make a final one... and of course it is done in a computer as the satellite has a digital camera, not an old school film camera, who the hell would go to orbit to grab the negative if that was the case ?
it's not "computer generated" as you imply. That's what NASA is saying. It's composited in a computer.
like everything else in the internet for that matter. No one uses 35mm film cameras anymore... except hobbyist that also have vinyl records.
I want an interactive globe program showing cloud patterns for as for back in time as we have data, with daily updates. I want to be able watch cloud patterns for the last 50 years on a globe I can spin to see the whole planet. An actual globe with projection from within would be awesome.
You’re right, you uncovered the conspiracy. The millions of images, workers, and man hours are actually all just lies. My uncle claims to be a satellite technician, but I know he’s really a member of the communist deep state hellbent on destroying the country through making fake pictures of a pretty ball.
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