I mean, an image taken from space. From NASA’s MODIS Earth-observing satellite, to be specific:
Too cool. But hey! Who hit Maine with a asteroid?
I know, it’s Sebago Lake, and there’s a part that’s not round all frozen over on the right making it hard to see, so the rest looks round like an asteroid impact, but if I said all that it’s not as funny, OK?
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February 26th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I would also like to point out the glass worm on the left above just above the center. =P
February 26th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Have you ever noticed that the Eastern side of Hudson Bay, Canada, looks like part of a gigantic asteroid impact?
http://encarta.msn.com/map_701513219/Hudson_Bay.html
It just looks that way.
February 26th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I’m amazed that my area in NJ showed up as snow covered as we only got under 2 inches of snow from that storm. I have to laugh that the weather forecasts here tend to say snow north and west of the NJ turnpike but as you can see from space, that’s true!
Can also see the lake effect clouds in NY.
February 26th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Aw, cmon folks- this is obviously a cross-section of a carcass with the hair still on. Any resemblance to the Atlantic shoreline is just the Face on Mars thing again- heck, I’ve got an opal in matrix that looks just like NJ- measured not in carats but in exits.
Jess Tauber
February 26th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Oh noes! Globally warmings! Oh, wait…
February 26th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Wow. It’s amazing to see so clearly that if I lived half an hour east I wouldn’t have to deal with this mess. Maybe that’s why nobody in New Haven has ever heard of rock salt.
February 26th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Look closely at that Sebago Lake picture, there’s a snowmobiler at the bottom of that black spot. They’ve recovered the snowmobile, though.
February 26th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Space snow. That sounds like something that Cobra Commander of G.I. Joe fame would use to try and take over the world: “And if the United Statessss does not give in to our demandssss, we will blanket the entire country with… SPACE SNOW! Mwahahahahaaaaa! Hssss! It’s probably radioactive or something! Hahahahaaaa!”
February 26th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I never expected the snow-no snow transition be that sharp.
February 27th, 2007 at 12:10 am
James G.M., worm it is, but glass it isn’t. I think it is really an out-take from “Dune”. And that’s the mother-worm.
Ivan.
February 27th, 2007 at 5:02 am
I can see my house from here!
February 27th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Hey, I can’t see my sister in CT, but I can see a Great White swimming off of Montauk Point.
Oh, shoot, it must be Block Island…darn!
February 27th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Holy cow, I thought it was in greyscale until I scrolled down! That’s really neat.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Hey, I live a stone’s throw from Sebago (Windham)!