Empirical Earth · Space, Satellites & the Edges of the Map

“The photos are fake” — imaged by rivals, daily

The claim

“Every image of the globe is a NASA CGI fake.”

What is measured

The full, round Earth is imaged continuously by rival space agencies, the US, Japan, Europe, Russia, China and India, plus private companies, and posted daily from a million miles by DSCOVR. For it to be fake, every competing nation would have to share one hoax and never defect.

What would show this is wrong

a rival space agency (Roscosmos, CNSA, ISRO, ESA or JAXA) publishing evidence that the others’ full-disk Earth imagery is fabricated; or by setting up a $100 receiver, pointing it at 1694.1 MHz, and pulling down an image of the Earth that is not round. The equipment list is public and the frequency is published. Anyone can run it.

Sources

  1. Daily full-disk Earth imagery (DSCOVR/EPIC). NASA’s EPIC camera at the L1 point (~1.5 million km) posts 12–22 public-domain images of the entire sunlit Earth each day, showing the globe rota link
  2. The international geostationary fleet. Full-disk Earth imagers are operated independently by the US (GOES), Japan (Himawari), Europe (Meteosat), Russia (Elektro-L), China (Fengyun) and India link
  3. Receiving GOES full-disk Earth imagery yourself. The GOES-R series geostationary satellites (GOES-16/18/19) transmit HRIT imagery on 1694.1 MHz , 1.205 MHz bandwidth, unencrypted. Because th link
  4. Direct broadcast from Russian and American weather satellites. Roscosmos operates the Meteor-M series (2-3 and 2-4), which transmits digital LRPT imagery near 137.1 MHz in color, receivable link
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