During flights, people could gather there to look down at either a TV image of the ground they're flying over, or a Google Earth image streamed onto the screen.
Far, far below me, the country's highest mountain, Mount Cook, reared up, looking distant yet strangely clear, as if in a Google Earth image.
Andreas Gursky's 2010 satellite image of Earth, "Ocean V, " comes directly from the actor's private collection.
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It will then show the image in Google Earth so they can see exactly where you were when you took it.
Honda unveiled their car's livery for the 2007 season on Monday and have chosen to scrap advertising and feature an image of the earth.
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The spacecraft will maintain the longest continuous image record of the Earth's surface as viewed from space.
The system is equipped with five laser guide stars and three deformable mirrors to correct image distortions from the Earth's atmosphere in real time, researchers said.
In America, the famous aerial pictures of Long Island's Levittown in the 1950s, which showed identical, boxy houses marching across bare earth, helped fix a depressing image of suburbia.
They concluded that the black drop results from blurring of the image (whether from Earth's atmosphere, or inevitable imperfections of the telescope) combined with the way that the disc of the sun fades in brightness towards its rim.
"I'm looking at it on the computer, " Mr. MacLean recalled, of examining the image after he returned to Earth.
Realistically, the dye will fade and the image will be covered over with earth long before visiting aliens get a chance to study it.
The television pictures on board were designed to begin operating when the rocket came within 2, 500 miles (4, 023km) of the lunar surface - 40 minutes before impact - and then send an image of the Moon back to Earth every 13 seconds.
Use a photographic plate to record an image from a zenith-pointing telescope, and you will end up with a streaky image, as a result of the earth's rotation.
This provides us with the first real image of a planet situated 25 light years from Earth.
The image transmission wasn't perfect and suffered defects because the Earth's atmosphere caused errors, even when the sky was clear, NASA said.
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument on Image is capturing the first global images of the plasmasphere, a tenuous extension of the Earth's electrically charged upper atmosphere, or ionosphere.
Use a digital sensor, however, and it is possible to shuffle the image across the sensor in such a way that it is exactly in step with the earth's rotation.
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