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Finally, Hi-Def Streaming Video of the ISS's View of Earth
An anonymous reader writes with a snippet from ExtremeTech: "After being continuously inhabited for more than 13 years, it is finally possible to log into Ustream and watch the Earth spinning on its axis in glorious HD. This video feed [embedded at ExtremeTech] comes from from four high-definition cameras, delivered by last month's SpaceX CRS-3 resupply mission, that are attached to the outside of the International Space Station. You can open up the Ustream page at any time, and as long as it isn't night time aboard the ISS, you'll be treated to a beautiful view of the Earth from around 250 miles (400 km) up."
I think I have checked about 20 times with one success. And the quality was not great the one time it was working.
By HD they mean 480p, or atleast that's what the "ustream" maxes at
Just a grey square. So much for the hype.
instead of providing ExtremeTech many pageviews. You can find the uStream link right here.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro!
By HD, they mean looking at nothing but grey?
also explanation
"During periods of loss of signal with the ground or when HDEV is not operating, a gray color slate or previously recorded video may be seen. "
NASA TV has had something similar for a long time. They have internal views with the IIS crew us on-duty and earth-views when the crew is off-duty.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
OMG we slashdotted the ISS.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I've said it before: Sebastian Anthony is submitting his own articles to Slashdot to get page views. Stop giving this guy ad-revenue money.
On a more realistic note, are there any military or espionage concerns that would motivate censorship of a feed like this? Assuming that's even possible, being the International Space Station after all.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Grammar Nazis should be fine with that sentence, as it is 100% correct - a few billion is definitely more than 13.
I laughed at myself when I realized how meh I was when the video was just grey. "I came here to see live video of Earth from space, can you guys get this working, gah! I'm here now, giving you my precious 10 seconds of attention."
After thinking for a second, I give them some slack. I think we might be getting a little blazé at the technical wonders of today. This live feed "doesn't just happen".
Waiting for you by the bridge
It takes a certain kind of retard to confuse the ISS with the Earth.
The sentence is also grammatically correct.
I think it's just overwhelmed; I was able to get on the first time I tried, bu haven't been able to get the video since.
Nah. The resolution coupled with the extreme distance from the earths surface will not reveal anything of importance.
Whew. Thats a relief. Though my interwebs was broken.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
Doesn't it speed up the motion? I thought the ISS moved east to west relative to the surface of the earth. The earth's surface moves west to east as it spins.
It takes a certain kind of retard to confuse the ISS with the Earth.
The sentence is also grammatically correct.
Of course, I know the context implies that it's the ISS that has been inhabited for 13 years, not the Earth. But that means the ISS should be in the sentence as a noun. It is not. Therefore, grammatical error. A doozie.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I thought we weren't allowed to use that word anymore out of the fear it would offend the retards?
Sorry but yes. The Earth is always spinning on its axis, so whenever and however you see it, that is what it's doing.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
480p max. Seriously?
I could provide a content free stream at a lot higher resolution than this from my webcam.
Offending retards is one of the primary functions of the internet.
It is grammatically correct, yes, and says that the Earth has been inhabited for more than 13 years.
Considering that the ISS does an orbit around the earth every 90 minutes, compared to the earth rotation every 24 hours, almost 95% of the motion you see is due to the ISS' orbiting the earth rather than the earth spinning on its axis.
No, it says something inferred from the context of the paragraph has been inhabited for more than 13 years and the Earth can be observed spinning from it.
Going by your grammar rules, the sentence you just typed says the Earth is grammatically correct.
Or is the subject of the verb inferred?
Given the bandwidth the video must be coming down through TDRS via Ku band. It would be really nice if they just posted a count-down to the next Ku pass so people would know when that wonderfully not useful grey block was going to turn into a real live video feed.
...but the oh-so-fun to say - and best grammar-based double-entendre going - it's a dangling participle.
so out of all the shit that needs fixed on earth, your proposal is to spend billions of dollars to see how long it takes for moondust to get on a sliver of glass
fuck you
Yes, actually. This is what I want to spend my money on.
We've spent trillions, on trying to fix shit that ain't ever going to get fixed, and I'd like to take a break and look at something pretty for a while.
Some money spent here:
http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/...
But, just to put things into perspective, look at what we're really spending money on:
http://mentalfloss.com/article....
You think that we can't spend part of our cigarette budget on something else.
It would be nice to have a truly high-res image, at a lower frame rate (say one frame every few minutes), and use it for a live desktop wallpaper...
Why has it taken this long to re-render it in HD? Blender could have done this years ago.
Why is it shut down during their 'nighttime'? Is it because noone is around to censor the video quickly when needed?
extremetech is the kind of website that requires you to allow such an enormous crapload of all-interconnected javascript, that re-iterates every time you 'temporarily allow all this page', that I can't watch it.
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
What's the point of HD if it needs flash.
Scientists, who own this project, will not let us see Earth in HD in real time. They are interested in publishing papers, getting Nobel and other prizes, i.e. keeping data to themselves.
This stream video link does not work as expected. And will not work.
How can it be necessary to run scripts from so many sites? And if you allow the ones on extremetech to run, it runs even more third-party scripts. Short of serving up obvious malware, this is about as hostile and risky as a webpage gets.
I did not write a sentence in the same form as the one referred to. Don't be ridiculous.
NEE-01 PEGASO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... live streamed 720p video early May 2013 through EarthCam http://www.earthcam.com/world/...
Is this the http://www.urthecast.com/ feed? Or a different camera altogether?
Reli Fundamentalists should also be fine with the sentence, provided that it is a matter of course that it should be interpreted as "more than 13, but less than or equal to 6,000 years"
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
I agree that the resolution is not exceptional. But the distance is not extreme: the ISS is only in LEO. Actually, it's the availability of real-time streaming that I assumed would cause the greatest concern, if there is any.
I posed the question because I am aware of other situations where cameras in earth-orbit (pointing towards or away from the Earth) have raised concerns from government agencies.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.