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…
Archive for Eyes in the Sky
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…
SkyTruth – Using satellites to spot gas flares, deforestation, illegal fishing, and other nasties
SkyTruth uses satellite imagery and measurements to monitor the globe for nefarious activities: SkyTruth is a nonprofit organization using remote sensing and digital mapping to create stunning images that expose the landscape disruption and habitat degradation caused by mining, oil and gas drilling, deforestation, fishing and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oddities on Google Earth
Here’s an interesting collection of natural and man-made features as seen from space : 40 Bizarre and Cool Google Earth Photos – noupe. The isle of Galesnjak off the coast of Croatia has a Valentines look about it. Photo: Google Earth/EUROPICS
Here is a compilation of time-lapse imagery of the earth shot from the ISS by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and set to a nice soundtrack:
Here is a NASA interview with Cari Goulard of the Sally Ride EarthKAM program, which enables middle school students all around the world to take photographs of Earth with a camera mounted in a window on the International Space Station. More than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Via Universe Today comes this excellent time lapse video compiled with imagery from the Int. Space Station:
Here’s a super high resolution video taken from the International Space Station (link via i09): From the caption: This timelapse video was made from images taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ESA’s Sentinel-1 radar satellite sees the effects of the recent earthquake in Napa Valley: Radar vision maps Napa Valley earthquake 2 September 2014: Sentinel-1A has added yet another string to its bow. Radar images from this fledgling satellite have been used to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cities at Night from the ISS program has organized a citizen science campaign to classify images taken of earth by astronauts on the ISS at night: Image overload: Help us, NASA says – CNN.com The images come from the gallery of 1.8M […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An update on the Sally Ride EarthKAM program, which lets middle-school students take images of the earth from the International Space Station: Students See World From Station Crew’s Point of View NASA is helping students examine their home planet from space without […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…