r/spaceporn • u/feeling_impossible • Feb 07 '18

Surreal, absurd, outlandish, preposterous... But there it is. The entire earth clearly reflected off the side of a car. [1920x1080]

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u/Redexe Feb 07 '18

There are several cameras in and around the Tesla , but the batteries only lasted 12 hours and there are no sattelite dishes, solar panels or other coms devices mounted to broadcast imagery. It's dead now :/

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u/BlahYourHamster Feb 07 '18

In retrospect this is a bit of a missed opportunity. You would have thought they'd put at least a solar powered tracker on it.

Heck, even a solar powered camera that takes periodic pictures every so often would have been good enough.

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u/justwannabeloggedin Feb 07 '18

Yeah I'm just now hearing about this thing but now I'm already upset. Not that I've ever used any of my billions to launch objects into space but it seems like adding picture takers and sun batteries and earth talking space stuff would be really high on the list.

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u/Hyperion4 Feb 07 '18

They had 12 hours worth of those things, there is only so many ways you can take a picture of a Tesla with the earth in the background

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u/RipleyInCharge Feb 07 '18

Ummmm... until it gets to MARS.

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u/Hyperion4 Feb 07 '18

It isn't actually going to Mars, nor will it be close anytime soon

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u/touqen Feb 07 '18

It's not going to Mars though. It's a heliocentric orbit where the apoapsis is at least as far as Mars' orbit, but it will likely never intercept Mars in any of our lifetimes.

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u/serious_sarcasm Feb 07 '18

The purpose was to test the rocket. The payload was completely inconsequential. Which is why he went with quick and cheap advertisement. Even these “simple” things people are saying they should have added are not at all simple. At that point you should have just launched an actual satellite- which is exactly what they will do now that they know the rockets work.