A NASA photo of a space shuttle leaving earth’s atmosphere:
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3 responses to “Going up”
Karellen
Someone in the comments on the Facebook page found the original on NASA’s site, which doesn’t have that awful post-processed “macro blur” effect (because the unedited photo of a shuttle bursting through a cloud layer isn’t awesome enough?):
In the original, you can just about distinguish the shuttle itself from the external tank too. And, going by the filename, we can infer that it’s a picture of Endeavour on mission STS-134, the penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle programme, and that the picture was taken on May 16th, 2011.
DW Macaulay
Very impressive. I immediately though “that’s exactly what an ICBM would look like on its way to incinerate a few cities”.
Rob
…that awful post-processed “macro blur” effect…
Being picky, but I believe it’s that awful post-processed “tilt shift” effect that is used to simulate a miniaturised model. grossly overused and both inappropriate and totally unnecessary in this case. The original is far more striking.
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3 responses to “Going up”
Someone in the comments on the Facebook page found the original on NASA’s site, which doesn’t have that awful post-processed “macro blur” effect (because the unedited photo of a shuttle bursting through a cloud layer isn’t awesome enough?):
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1105/shuttleplume_sts134_2502.jpg
In the original, you can just about distinguish the shuttle itself from the external tank too. And, going by the filename, we can infer that it’s a picture of Endeavour on mission STS-134, the penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle programme, and that the picture was taken on May 16th, 2011.
Very impressive. I immediately though “that’s exactly what an ICBM would look like on its way to incinerate a few cities”.
Being picky, but I believe it’s that awful post-processed “tilt shift” effect that is used to simulate a miniaturised model. grossly overused and both inappropriate and totally unnecessary in this case. The original is far more striking.