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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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 32 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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 15 points 12 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 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

for real shaking your head too