So, the next time you make a mistake in explaining earth, fret not. Even NASA make that silly mistake
AND, it's not about the outer-space; it's JUST about some well known surface on earth. With all the technology that we have, we still make 'easy' mistakes. Or should I say 'silly'? LOL
This photo shows the Karakoram Range in northern India – not Mount Everest, as U.S. space agency NASA mistakenly reported.
Credit: Yuri Malenchenko / Russian Federal Space Agency
The world's highest mountain should not be hard to spot but American space agency NASA has admitted it mistook a summit in India for Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and China.
The agency said on its website that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko's snap from the International Space Station, 370 kilometres above Earth, showed Everest lightly dusted with snow.
The picture spread rapidly via Twitter and was picked up by media around the world, including the US-based magazine The Atlantic, astronomy website Space.com and US cable news channel MSNBC.
“Sorry guys, that’s not Everest”
But Nepalis smelt a rat and voiced their suspicions on social media. Journalist Kunda Dixit, an authority on the Himalayas, tweeted: "Sorry guys, but the tall peak with the shadow in the middle is not Mt Everest."
NASA confirmed on Thursday that it had made a mistake and removed the picture from its website.
"It is not Everest. It is Saser Muztagh, in the Karakoram Range of the Kashmir region of India," a spokesman admitted in an email to AFP.
"The view is in mid-afternoon light looking northeastward."
He did not explain how the picture from the space station, a joint project of the US, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe, had been wrongly identified.
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AND, it's not about the outer-space; it's JUST about some well known surface on earth. With all the technology that we have, we still make 'easy' mistakes. Or should I say 'silly'? LOL
The world's highest mountain should not be hard to spot but American space agency NASA has admitted it mistook a summit in India for Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and China.
The agency said on its website that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko's snap from the International Space Station, 370 kilometres above Earth, showed Everest lightly dusted with snow.
The picture spread rapidly via Twitter and was picked up by media around the world, including the US-based magazine The Atlantic, astronomy website Space.com and US cable news channel MSNBC.
“Sorry guys, that’s not Everest”
But Nepalis smelt a rat and voiced their suspicions on social media. Journalist Kunda Dixit, an authority on the Himalayas, tweeted: "Sorry guys, but the tall peak with the shadow in the middle is not Mt Everest."
NASA confirmed on Thursday that it had made a mistake and removed the picture from its website.
"It is not Everest. It is Saser Muztagh, in the Karakoram Range of the Kashmir region of India," a spokesman admitted in an email to AFP.
"The view is in mid-afternoon light looking northeastward."
He did not explain how the picture from the space station, a joint project of the US, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe, had been wrongly identified.
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