What Does Earth Look Like?
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. This point of light in the sky is Earth as seen from the surface of Mars. And this is Earth as seen from Saturn. Here's an image taken only 45,000 kilometres away, the famous Blue Marble. But what does Earth really look like? Well, it depends on how you define "look". The word look comes from the old Breton word "lagud", mean eye, the human eye. And that's part of the problem. Images like this are based on light humans can see. But we don't see everything. There's a fantastic episode of Radiolab that uses sound to illustrate just how different other creature visual spaces are from our our own. When we talk about the way something physically looks we are talking about the visual percep...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. This point of light in the sky is Earth as seen from the surface of Mars. And this is Earth as seen from Saturn. Here's an image taken only 45,000 kilometres away, the famous Blue Marble. But what does Earth really look like? Well, it depends on how you define "look". The word look comes from the old Breton word "lagud", mean eye, the human eye. And that's part of the problem. Images like this are based on light humans can see. But we don't see everything. There's a fantastic episode of Radiolab that uses sound to illustrate just how different other creature visual spaces are from our our own. When we talk about the way something physically looks we are talking about the visual percep...
