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."
Google Maps is off-topic (Score:5, Insightful)
The point of this thing is that the pictures are "almost live." The imagery in Google Maps tends to be several years old. It's not the same thing at all.
Programmer senses tingling (Score:4, Insightful)
And why the hell aren't they using PNG instead of BMP?
Quality (Score:3, Insightful)
My whole house could disappear as a JPEG compression artifact.
How about TIFF with LZW compression as a compromise?
Re:Triana Satalite (Score:4, Insightful)
Don't people ever tire of acting like sheep?