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

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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Can confirm, I was there and am in this image

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 44 minutes ago

Location confirmed. Get him, boys!

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 32 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

You can tell because of the way it is.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 14 points 7 hours ago

𝒞ℯ𝒸𝒾 𝓃'ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝒶𝓈 𝓊𝓃ℯ 𝒯ℯ𝓇𝓇ℯ

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 21 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 8 points 6 hours ago

Can't believe they're not letting us move the satellite around, smh

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Bullshit piefed says this post is almost an hour old youre a liar