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just for kicks!
« on: December 21, 2010, 07:55:00 PM »
can anyone identify what land mass is shown in this photo?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/fap/image/0711/earth_sts118_big.jpg
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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2010, 08:10:22 PM »
The Central American isthmus in the foreground?

No, wait. Southern Italy.
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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2010, 08:24:31 PM »
Yep, Greece/the Balkans in the background, the "foot" of Italy in the foreground. 
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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2010, 08:55:47 PM »
pretty good, faster than i found it.
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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2010, 12:38:25 AM »
Did anybody else try to use the coordinates at the bottom of the pic?

Got me off the west coast of Africa where there was no land mass to compare with that shown.

Must have been put there by some Air Force intelligence officer. :P

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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2010, 01:02:09 AM »
Didn't see 'em, but they don't look much like coordinates to me. Then again, it's been many a year since I dabbled in that field.
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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2010, 09:09:55 AM »
Did anybody else try to use the coordinates at the bottom of the pic?

Got me off the west coast of Africa where there was no land mass to compare with that shown.

Must have been put there by some Air Force intelligence officer. :P

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Probably put there by Google maps, just for the Nicaraguan army.
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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2010, 10:00:26 AM »
Did anybody else try to use the coordinates at the bottom of the pic?

Got me off the west coast of Africa where there was no land mass to compare with that shown.

Must have been put there by some Air Force intelligence officer. :P

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that may have been the position of the shuttle when the photo was taken,  looking east.
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Re: just for kicks!
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2010, 11:11:07 AM »
Looks like that pac-man critter in the lower left might try to eat the ISS  :O
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