UK as seen from the Space Station

[Thor]

Morning all, today I awoke and took a look at the paper and apparently NASA has just released a picture taken of the UK from the space station back in February this year. The picture was taken by a Nikon D5 camera.

Now call my a cynic, but where is any of our major cities? Our country apparently is a tree covered jungle! The seas are Caribbean blue! I look at the Isle of White which has two forests yet the photo shows it also looking like one big forest. Taking it further we as a country seem to be virtually at the top of the globe yet any globe I’ve seen we are not, there’s plenty of space between us and the North Pole. Also in February there’s not much green around as it’s still winter.

My question is, is this picture fake or what? Are we being led a merry dance by NASA and the powers that be?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... nauts.html

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/18 ... 069374.jpg

[Real Al]

If you awoke to the Daily Mail, no wonder you're talking rubbish.

Just 10% of the UK is considered as 'urban'. This includes rural development and roads. However, over half of that is natural (e,g, parks, sports fields, allotments) and of the rest, gardens take up 18% and rivers, ponds, reservoirs etc. make up another 6.6%. In total just 2.27% of the UK is 'concreted over'.

It's green because it's February - in August it would be a lot more brown.

As for your comment about the globe...

[EliotNes]

There is a lot more greenery in this country than some people (especially the Greens/environmentalist) would have us believe, especially in London. As someone who flies at least monthly over parts of the UK, I've seen it. It is not the concrete covered place some maintain it is.

[Disoriented]

If you awoke to the Daily Mail, no wonder you're talking rubbish.

[CreamofSumYungGai]

Morning all, today I awoke and took a look at the paper and apparently NASA has just released a picture taken of the UK from the space station back in February this year. The picture was taken by a Nikon D5 camera.

Now call my a cynic, but where is any of our major cities? Our country apparently is a tree covered jungle! The seas are Caribbean blue! I look at the Isle of White which has two forests yet the photo shows it also looking like one big forest. Taking it further we as a country seem to be virtually at the top of the globe yet any globe I’ve seen we are not, there’s plenty of space between us and the North Pole. Also in February there’s not much green around as it’s still winter.

My question is, is this picture fake or what? Are we being led a merry dance by NASA and the powers that be?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... nauts.html

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/18 ... 069374.jpg

I don’t think we should be calling you a cynic.

[StillSpike]

When you look at a photograph of the Earth, taken "from the moon" - it's all just blue and white. You can't see any cars at all.

Now, call me a cynic, but I have a red car, and you can't see any red cars on such photographs, so I wonder whether they've even been to the moon. And another thing, there's these shadows.......zzzzzz

[Baddo]

Taking it further we as a country seem to be virtually at the top of the globe yet any globe I’ve seen we are not, there’s plenty of space between us and the North Pole.

Brilliant.