A YouTuber Builds a Satellite to Take Selfie With the Planet Earth at Background

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Dec 6, 2024 Reading time : 2 min

YouTube is a global name for learning, exploring, experiencing, and uploading. Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer and famous YouTuber with 60.2 million subscribers, recently announced thrilling news. Now, you can take a selfie with the planet Earth. 

Yes, the big blue and green planet in the background of your selfie is directly from space using Rober’s satellite. Mark Rober is also the founder of CrunchLabs, which offers engineer-build toys and kits for children to learn and think like scientists. He is showing his interest in building a satellite to capture selfies with the help of Google and T-Mobile. 

Mark Rober offers a selfie with Earth

Additionally, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the satellite in January 2025. He uploaded a video on YouTube explaining the entire procedure, which was titled “My New Satellite Can Take Your Selfie From Space.” Rober claims that if you tell him where you live, he confirms your selfie when the satellite is over your city. Then, you can go outside and digitally take two shots. 

How to get a selfie with the planet Earth? Well, Mark Rober advertises spaceselfie.com website. You need to get your code and enter it on this official website. Here is the catch on how to get these codes. In contrast, the advertisement for capturing a selfie with Earth is FREE! FREE!, but it is available for CrunchLabs subscribers, which costs between $25-$80 annually. 

Partnerships with Google and T-Mobile prove worthwhile for Google Pixel owners and T-Mobile subscribers. They will get free codes for selfies. However, the code redemption began on December 3, the photo-capturing process will take a few months.

Are you curious to take selfies with our beautiful planet? Lemma knows.

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