Thomas Lake <smi### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
> EagleSun wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I just returned from a trip in space and I took this picture... enjoy...
>
> Fantastic image. Is it just me though or is the earth tilted on its side
> here? You seem to have north and south America running from left to
> right in the image meaning North is to the left and South is to the
> right, however you have the sun shinning from the south and it's
> nighttime in the north suggesting that the planet rotates on an east
> west axis? Or am I looking at the image wrong?
Hmm... I tilted the earth (and the sun too) by 30 degrees to the
counter-clockwise. If you rotate it back, you will see that the current
view represents some time around late September.... if you look really
closely, you can still see parts of Canada.
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