NASA's Earth Observatory Shows Solar Flare

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 28, 2003 @04:31PM from the and-the-hair-on-your-chinny-chin-chin dept.

staaktdenarbeid writes "In the past few months I became very impressed with the timeliness and quality of NASA's Earth Observatory. When hurricane Isabel struck, their imagery showed me the biggest latte ever made. Now that Southern California is on fire, it takes only a look from outer space to see how bad the sitation really is. And, today, a massive solar flare showed up on their website as soon as it errupted (so to speak). Each of these pictures is accompanied by detailed technical background. And for the rest of us, they also make perfect screen backgrounds. Very cool."

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Big Brother knows by spikeham · 2003-10-28 16:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Big deal, all you are seeing is the same stuff the US government has been seeing for forty years, except at way lower resolution.

Once the French created SPOT, the imagery was available in the commercial world, and the government finally had to let NASA show it to the masses.