Seeing the Earth Almost Live 143
arobic writes "European Space Agency (ESA) is putting recent pictures of the Earth (taken 2 hours before) online using Envisat. To avoid filling up their disks too quickly, only the bmp of the last 30 days are available but jpg are kept. Also, only region receiving light can be seen, which explains why no recent pictures of Thailand are available."
IE only? (Score:5, Informative)
I tried to go see the tornado damage in London, but apparently the resolution is extremely low - at the multinational zoom level, if you will.
Re:Thailand? (Score:1, Informative)
Maybe he was referring to the fact that there is/was night in Thailand, so there are no recent pictures, because they need sunlight?
Don't forget MODIS (Score:4, Informative)
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/200634 1/ [nasa.gov]
Triana Satalite (Score:3, Informative)
Shame, I would have like to have seen that publicized and championed by the media. A little cultural enlightenment might have gone a long way.
RAPIDFIRE (Score:5, Informative)
Sure RapidFire doesnt have the flashy web interface (actually i dont like the MIRAVI web site), but all the photos are there and up to date.
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/ [nasa.gov]
Re:James Kim? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:James Kim? (Score:4, Informative)
In no way is the parent "Funny." James Kim is a reference to the cNET editor who (along with his family) was lost in Oregon and died. [cnn.com] Try "Interesting" or "Insightful."
Re:Thailand? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Thailand? (Score:5, Informative)