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UrtheCast Releases Its First Commercial Videos of Earth

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look dept.

schwit1 writes: UrtheCast has released high resolution videos of three Earth cities taken from its camera on ISS. Take a look. The cameras are quite successful in capturing the motion of vehicles on highways and road, which is amazing considering the vibrations that ISS experiences merely from astronaut movements. Quartz reports: "The company plans to offer the imagery in several tiers, from a free video feed on its website to an API that will allow customers, including corporations, governments and individuals, to purchase imagery data from its database or make real-time requests for a look at a given spot on the earth. The cameras scan the ground under the ISS, which tracks the earth between about 51 degrees north and south latitude."

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  1. This brings us closer to google earth real time by burtosis · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wont be satisfied until i see my own tablet displaying google earth real time in the app doing one of those infinite recursion effects.