Archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses satellite imagery to find previously undiscovered sites of ancient human activities. She also uses such images to detect looting of known sites. She describes her techniques in the TED talk video below. See also the Gallery: Archaeological mysteries hidden in satellite images. Parcak […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Astronaut Scott Kelly on the Int. Space Station snapped this photo of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California while the Super Bowl was underway: Space Station Flyover of Super Bowl 50 – NASA. Scott Kelly on Twitter: Got to see the #SuperBowl in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a cool time-lapse video of satellite imagery showing the big snow storm over the east coast: NASA’s GEOS-5 provides a satellite view of historic winter storm – Global Modeling and Assimilation Office Research Site This one is from NOAA: Here’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Planet Labs nanosatellite snaps pictures of the two sites on the coast of Dubai – Planet Labs on Twitter: “Master-planning at its grandest— the Palm Jumeirah and the World Archipelago dominate the #Dubai coastline” Check out more such shots from around […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Merry Christmas!! For my HobbySpace readers, here is a Christmas Pluto And a tour of our beautiful earth as seen from the International Space Station:
The Canadian company UrtheCast has high definition earth-observation cameras mounted on the exterior of the Int. Space Station and it has a set of earth-obs satellites. Urthecast has announced that it will assist the monitoring of the health of forests […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A small sampling of the use of satellite earth observation imagery: * Satellites help fight drought in Ethiopia – UNICEF Connect Ethiopia is currently in one of its periodic droughts. Satellites are One of the most affected areas in the country […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This NASA video highlights Planet Labs, which is using a constellation of small satellites to image the earth daily. So far, most of the Planet Labs Dove satellites have been inserted into orbit from the Int. Space Station via the assistance of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Astronaut Ron Garan shared many wonderful images of earth with the public via social media during his stay aboard the International Space Station. He has now written a book about his time in space and about the special view of earth available […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Space videos of hurricane Patricia: * NASA/NOAA video – NASA Analyzes Record-Breaking Hurricane Patricia – NASA – great images as well. At 8 a.m. EDT on October 23, 2015, the National Hurricane Center reported Patricia became the strongest eastern north pacific hurricane on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Via the DSCOVR spacecraft, you can now see daily images of the full side of the earth facing the sun: Daily Views of Earth Available on New NASA Website NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Great views of the Moon transiting across the face of the Earth have been taken by the DSCOVR science spacecraft, which was launched to the Earth-Sun Lagrange point L-1 back in February on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. From a Million Miles: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The citizen science program Zooniverse used satellite imagery from Planet Labs to help spot areas of Nepal in urgent need of assistance after the earthquake: Disaster Response in Nepal and The Zooniverse – Zooniverse Very soon after the recent magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Nepal, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out satellite before/after images of the capital city of Nepal: Photos: Nepal Earthquake, before and after in satellite photos – Denver Post. The images come from DigitalGlobe, which is giving relief groups free access to images of Nepal: DigitalGlobe opens access to satellite […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are some images from NASA of the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile that erupted on April 22, 2015. Calbuco Volcano Erupts : Image of the Day Eruption of Calbuco Continues : Natural Hazards An image from NASA’s Terra satellite. A […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Int. Space Station is becoming a popular platform on which to experiment with and implement earth observation systems. For example, the company UrtheCast has cameras on the outside of the ISS providing continuous images of the earth. In February, a SpaceX […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
European Space Agency’s Earth From Space webcast program reports on the Sentinel-2 earth observation satellite: In this special edition, Wolfgang Pitz, Head of European Programmes for Airbus Defence and Space, joins the show to discuss testing the Sentinel-2A satellite at IABG in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a nicely made time lapse of images of earth shot from the International Space Station:
The Amazon rain forest stays green because of Saharan dust: NASA Satellite Reveals How Much Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants What connects Earth’s largest, hottest desert to its largest tropical rain forest? The Sahara Desert is a near-uninterrupted brown band […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Whole lotta snow is covering much of the USA. Check out this image of the northeastern quadrant of the country taken by NASA’s Terra satellite : NASA Snaps Picture of Eastern U.S. in a Record-Breaking “Freezer” Click for large image. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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