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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."

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  1. Google Maps by AugustZephyr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://maps.google.com/ is more intuitive than the ESA MIRAVI and if you would like a more powerful tool check out http://earth.google.com/.

  2. Re:But what about... by Van+Cutter+Romney · · Score: 0, Redundant

    After getting /.ed, they're not going to have any bandwidth left.

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  3. Re:Thailand? by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, but why single out Thailand here?

  4. a likely story by jjeffries · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "Also, only region receiving light can be seen, which explains why no recent pictures of Thailand are available"

    Riiiiight... Has anyone ever seen Thailand and Envisat together? Didn't think so! One minute Thailand is right next to you, then you turn around and there's Envisat, but where did Thailand go???

    I think any decent person can see what I'm getting at here.

  5. Dark by tryptych · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "There is no dark side of Thailand. As a matter of fact, it's all dark."

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    "I like to skate on the other side of the ice"