Mark Borgerson mborgerson.at.comcast.net wrote in
.net:

LOL! Thanks for the laughable hypothesis. It's a bit contradictory,
though. Any astronauts orbiting sufficiently high to take photos
showing the whole earth would be orbiting right in the middle of the
Van Allen Belts! Wouldn't that fog your film!



The picture was just a round porthole picture of the OCEAN below, not the
whole earth....