Straight of Gibraltar in the upper right.
So, I am walking my dog and take like 20 pictures of him plying. Guys fly to the moon and all we’ve got is just this one image?
Whats on the other side of the disk? 🤔
Why rotating it, though?
Because the original is not in a North-South orientation, so it’s hard to tell that this is West Africa and the Iberian peninsula. Just to make it easier to understand what we’re looking at.
Mmm, isn’t that a feature? That our world has many points of view, all equally valid. There is nothing to fix in the original photo because when you look at a planet there is no up or down, just the unfathomable canvas of void embracing it.
I would even argue that the original orientation is good for the soul of those that cannot see the world with “some countries on the top”. Especially during these times.
Maybe, but for people familiar with contours of a map in an N-S orientation, it’s easier to know what you’re seeing by turning it a bit.
That ought to be the most terrifying and awesome thing to experience. Seeing the thing you spent your entire life on, and everything you know and love and ever experienced is sitting on it, get smaller and smaller as you drift in the vast darkness of space.
You really gotta try not to panic while you’re up there.
That’s why the best selling book in the universe has “Don’t Panic” printed in large, friendly letters on the cover.
I hope your comment gets 42 upvotes, not more, no less.
