In this video, NASA astronaut Mario Runco talks about some of the subtleties involved in taking photographs of the Earth from the International Space Station:
The Google Earth Engine displays a range of satellite imagery including zoomable time-lapse views of particular areas over a 40 year time span: A picture of Earth through time – Official Google Blog Here are some examples:
Here’s a very beautifully made time-lapse video composition of ISS imagery by Bruce W. Berry Jr of Bruce Wayne Photography. Time-Lapse | Earth from Bruce W. Berry Jr on Vimeo. (Item via UniverseToday.com,)
This NASA video presents the EarthKAM program, which lets students control a camera on the International Space Station to take images of the earth. Caption: Since the earliest days of the space program, astronauts have taken photos of the Earth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In this interview, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit talks about how he and his “fellow Expedition 30/31 crew members captured more than a half a million photographs of Earth from aboard the International Space Station.”
Ralph Ewig points to the video “Further Up Yonder” by Giacomo Sardelli with views of earth from the ISS: Further Up Yonder from Giacomo Sardelli on Vimeo.
A message from DMC International Imaging Ltd.: Satellite imagery helps fight locust plagues in North Africa DMC International Imaging (DMCii) is helping The Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) to predict the spread of locust plagues across North Africa as part of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This NASA video, with a snappy musical soundtrack, shows off the best earth observation images of 2012: ************************** Shop Amazon Gold Box – New Deals. Everyday
The latest episode of NASA’s ScienceCasts program reports on ozone in the atmosphere and about the SAGE III instrument that will be placed on the ISS to “monitor Earth’s protective ozone shell with greater depth and precision than ever before”.
Images of earth from space often look both amazingly beautiful and intriguingly abstract. Here’s a fun exercise in trying to tell a set of earth observation images from artworks like those one might see at the Metropolitan Museum of Art […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Via UniverseToday.com comes a pointer to the video below by Christoph Malin who combines wonderful imagery of earth with a lecture by astronaut and former ISS crew member Don Pettit about taking photos from the station. This is a tribute […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A beautiful video (with soundtrack) of nighttime views of the earth as seen from the ISS: Another Incredible Timelapse from the ISS – universetoday.com Caption: Published on Feb 1, 2013 Edited by Brian Tomlinson: http://www.btprints.com Original stills for the time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the striking oil painting of Chris Hadfield by Feohria at deviantART. Chris Hadfield is currently on the International Space Station. He participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Sunday: I Am Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA launched today a new Landsat earth observation spacecraft, continuing the series of Landsat missions that go back to 1972: NASA launches $855 million Landsat mission – CBS News. Check out this cool LandsatLook Viewer. You can compare images of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a NASA video showing an animation of NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite imagery from Feb. 7 to Feb. 9 as two large weather systems came together and created “a blizzard of historic proportions in New England. On Feb. 9 at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alan Boyle reports that Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is taking marvelous pictures of earth from the ISS and posting them online : Astronaut’s artistry hits warp speed – PhotoBlog See the Col. Chris Hadfield Facebook page and Chris Hadfield (Cmdr_Hadfield) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out this zoomable satellite image of a snow covered Britain: Britain in the snow: as seen from space – guardian.co.uk.
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