I'm searching "world from space" in google.
These are footage of places I found;
- North America
- America
- South America
- Africa
- Italy and around
- Europe
- India
- Middle east with Africa
- India and a part of middle east and Africa together
- Africa with Europe
So, why can not they take a footage from Antarctica, shows the whole continent? Because is it not exist?
You ask, "Why can not they take footage from Antarctica, showing the whole continent?" and the reason is that there are no satellites in a high enough orbit over the poles to take all of Antarctica in a single photo.
All the weather satellites in Geostationary orbit must be over the equator and cannot "see" Antarctica.
There are many lower orbiting satellites that go close enough to the poles but these cannot photograph a wide enough field so almost all photographs of Antarctica must be "mosaics".
In addition, the ice-sheets prevent visible light photos showing the outline of the land but radar can penetrate the ice so there are some images created from radar satellite data, for example:
A composite image from the RadarSat satellite.
I got this image from: Satellite pictures of Antarctica One of the few photos of the whole of Antarctica from space was the one from Apollo 17 because it flew a long way south to avoid the worst of the van Allen Belts and so they could see virtually all of Antarctica but there is a lot of cloud and ice hiding the land.
Here is that Apollo 17 photo cropped and enlarged in an animation:
Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Antarctica Zoom-out Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on January 23, 2003
The Apollo 17 spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at midnight on December 7th, 1972. Just hours after lift-off, the command module aligned with the Earth and Sun, allowing the crew to photograph Earth in full light. For the first time in an Apollo mission, the Antarctic continent was visible allowing for a photo to be taken by the orbiting astronauts. The photo was taken at about 18,000 statute miles away from Earth. Virtually every picture showing the full Earth is derived from this one photograph. Television, newspapers, websites, and marketing material have all used this photograph over the years. Geostationary weather satellites, Galileo, and many other spacecraft have returned great pictures of the full Earth from space, but this image is still the number one requested photo in the NASA photo archives.
Animation using the Apollo 17 full-Earth photo.
This animation starts tight on Antarctica and slowly drifts back to reveal the rest of the globe.
Digital copy of the Apollo 17 full-Earth photograph.
The animation has been made by simply cropping the original Apollo 17 photo taken on a film camera and digitised.
I do not know if you can watch that animation on the NASA site but the starting photo is on your photo site,
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