r/MarkRober

Note: Non-HDR image shown for privacy.

Does anyone know how the timestamps are set and/or how the camera is oriented relative to the orbit? I uploaded my wedding photo and asked for it to be taken over Tofino, BC where I was married. As you can see from the raw image the view of earth is just the water. Pacific Ocean makes sense so not entirely unexpected. When I poked around at the website and got the raw images used to make the HDR image I couldn't really figure out the timestamp. The meta data says image was taken on 2026/08/14 at 5:42PM. If that's UTC that would put the Sat south of Mexico. PST would be totally wrong. If it is EST that would kind of make sense. Sat Gus was to the west of BC at about that time on that day. Not sure why that would be the timezone used for the phone... https://www.satcat.com/sandbox?primary=62713&primaryDate=2026-08-14

The second question is then how is the camera angle oriented relative to the orbital trajectory? Is it constant or does the satellite have some rotation? Given the horizon is completely inverted from the photos on the Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/satgusearth/ it would appear to be rotating in some manner. So even if I knew what time the photo was taken and hence the location of Sat Gus how would I work out which direction is North? Given the 5:42PM EST guess and the location of what I assume is the reflection of the sun off the ocean in the bottom left of the image would I guess North America is behind the clouds to the top right? Does that make sense?

I'm going to check here tomorrow to see if I can match the cloud patterns. https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

For anyone wondering I got the email on 2026/08/14 at 11:11PM

The dates I pulled from the site:
codeRedeemedDate2025-05-27 04:27:00
selfieUploadedDate2025-05-27 04:37:28
selfieApprovedDate2025-06-17 23:52:14
satelliteSubmitDate2026-07-09 04:04:42
satelliteDownloadDate2026-08-15 06:07:14
selfieCompletedDate2026-08-15 06:09:20

Those are UTC times. I suppose if I knew how often the images are downloaded from the satellite that would be another data point in figuring this out.

Guys, I think Mark is in a relationship! ❤️‍🔥

A blonde girl I've never seen before appeared in a recent video. And under the comment "MRS. ROBER?!" Mark put a heart! A similar girl also appeared in one of his videos before. What do you think of this news?

Looking rougher with each passing video.

I just miss the old Mark Rober videos so much, when it was just a guy in his backyard doing cool schience stuff for people who were interested into science, not the guy he is now, with a huge production and the aim for the broad audience, with the final goal of selling his boxes.