Comments on: NASA, Give Me a Break. Earth Photos are Way Cooler.

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:32:00 +0000

Gotta love the readers of fstoppers – taking everything way too seriously with no since of humour.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:12:00 +0000

Sorry, but Earth is WAY cooler!!

By: kkjensen

kkjensen — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:04:00 +0000

Now if they let Curiosity post directly to Facebook…we could see the aliens at the same time as the whole world! :D

By: ApexofMediocrity

ApexofMediocrity — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:16:00 +0000

Agreed good sir.

By: Michael Kormos

Michael Kormos — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:36:00 +0000

I concur, but that’s only because Peter Lik hasn’t landed on Mars yet :-) Can’t wait for my January trip out west to Arches, Bryce and Northern AZ. Gonna be a blast with my new D800, 14-24 and Lee filter set!

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:35:00 +0000

I think Noam is right in a sense here. You could take a picture of a patch of dust, and it would be awesome just because it’s a patch of dust on Mars. The photos NASA has so far released have been amazing based on the context, not because of any inherent beauty.

That is what Earth has that Mars does not: Beauty that doesn’t require context. While I only personally liked the first and last shots in this series, all of them were far more visually beautiful than anything taken on Mars.

That being said, I’d stare at the dust twice as long than I did any picture in this series, but only because the context captures my imagination. If it was Nevada dust I wouldn’t look twice.

By: ★✰★P.S. 32★✰★

★✰★P.S. 32★✰★ — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:34:00 +0000

i’m here just to observe… cool!

By: Daniil Sosonkin

Daniil Sosonkin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:26:00 +0000

I can see photos of Earth any time I want by going to flickr, 500px, or by taking a plane along with my camera and capturing all the beauty. Nobody here would ever argue that Earth is beautiful and that a lot of skilled post-processing can make it even more stunning. However, I think that looking at the photo from another world for a few days or months is worth taking away your precious tweets about what is here all the time. So yes NASA, please take your time and increase the number of tweets, share all the photos that you have from that distant planet so that people here may actually realize there’s more to life than which “celebrity” had a boob job, or which politician has tweeted themselves naked or which iCrap is being revealed by a fruit company.

This… is… Earth – :) – http://500px.com/photo/1162779

By: Mark Pearson

Mark Pearson — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:15:00 +0000

What, no Ansel Adams?

By: Ralph Hightower

Ralph Hightower — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:29:00 +0000

Those are some stunning photos! But I have to say that photos from the surface of another planet are cool also!