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Seeing the Earth Almost Live

Posted by samzenpus on from the smile-for-the-satellite dept.

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."

5 of 143 comments (clear)

  1. It's crystal clear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yes, it clearly shows that Americans are increasingly getting obese! Ban transfat!

  2. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp
    Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/specs
    Configured with: /private/var/tmp/gcc/gcc-4061.obj~8/src/configure --disable-checking --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^+.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/gcc/darwin/4.0/c++ --build=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --host=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --target=powerpc-apple-darwin8
    Thread model: posix

  3. Live? by Klaidas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when is 2 hours delay called "live"?

  4. Re:James Kim? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    James Kim no, the corpse of James Kim yes.

  5. YOU FAIL It!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that the p80ject