Before calling it fake, check Japan’s Himawari-8/9 satellite a real Earth-observing satellite that captures full-disk images of our planet every 10 minutes using official space-based imaging, not weather predictions.

This is actual satellite imagery from space… sometimes Earth just looks so unreal that people forget reality can be more stunning than CGI

🔗Check out by yourself https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/ 🔗

Details: https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/himawari89.html

  • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
    181·
    5 hours ago

    How did the satellite take this picture? We should send another satellite to take a picture of how the first satellite took this picture to confirm the validity of the image.

    Edit: my dumb sleep deprived ass tried to rotate the earth on that satellite website 🤦‍♂️

    • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      5 hours ago

      Don’t worry I tried to rotate it too and I’m not sleep deprived. But yeah it seems to be in a geostationary orbit so it always shows the same side of the Earth.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
    282·
    6 hours ago

    Fake. This is just a picture of earth. You could never fit the real earth into a jpg because it’s made of rocks and dirt and stuff.