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Why there is no photos of earth from space? ๐ค
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Maybe you are talking about the color overlay that they add to images? This explains some of the reason. https://www.lroc.asu.edu/images/192
Edit: just realized this was explain like I'm 5 so I can add a little excerpt.
Not sure exactly what you mean by fake. My biggest guess will be the coloring of the images. Why are space photos always so vivid? This is because the images are color overlayed from a lot of images that are actually taken in single color themselves. Be it black or white, black and blue, etc. Once the individual images are received, they then piece them together go try and mimic the visual humans will see.
Photos are shot in single color because they are easier to process and also much smaller in size. This makes it better for transmitting.
This explains coloring in space.
https://socratic.org/questions/why-are-space-images-typically-black-and-white
Note: there are probably images from the ISS that are taken from normal cameras
A lot of them are also composites because you can't photograph more than 7%(?) of the Earth's surface from the ISS.
So the photos of half the Earth that is facing the camera may be made up of a bunch of photos and then they have to stich them together and correct for clouds.
Prior to 2015, there was only one photo of the entire sunlit face of the Earth and that was taken in 1972 by Apollo 17. The other 3 photos we have ever taken of the Earth have an unlit portion. We now have DSCOVR, which regularly takes photos every day.
By that logic the photo sphere I took of my living room are fake to these people