14:00-15:00 and beyond, the right view flips back and forth between showing a flat horizon and a very curved horizon. In any case, they should go further out and show us the big blue ball in one frame.
They can't. They are delivering a payload to low Earth orbit. Too low to do that. That's why we only have mosaic images. You have to be tens of thousands of kilometers high to see anything close to the whole Earth.
You would need a different launch vehicle to go to a higher delivery altitude, such as geostationary. So they didn't on this mission, but the vehicle probably did not have the performance capability. A Falcon Heavy would be able to reach the geostationary altitudes.
These cameras are fixed position, and fixed focus, showing what is visible at the particular altitude.
The two cameras they use in the right pane show two vantage points - one shows a much smaller area of earths surface than the other, and correspondingly, less arc.
14:00-15:00 and beyond, the right view flips back and forth between showing a flat horizon and a very curved horizon. In any case, they should go further out and show us the big blue ball in one frame.
They can't. They are delivering a payload to low Earth orbit. Too low to do that. That's why we only have mosaic images. You have to be tens of thousands of kilometers high to see anything close to the whole Earth.
"They can't" or they didn't in this mission?
You would need a different launch vehicle to go to a higher delivery altitude, such as geostationary. So they didn't on this mission, but the vehicle probably did not have the performance capability. A Falcon Heavy would be able to reach the geostationary altitudes.
These cameras are fixed position, and fixed focus, showing what is visible at the particular altitude.
The two cameras they use in the right pane show two vantage points - one shows a much smaller area of earths surface than the other, and correspondingly, less arc.