Here is NASA’s latest Space to Ground report on activities related to the International Space Station
More imagery of Hurricane Irma from the ISS:
A “Speedy-Time” video by the ISS crew members about taking photos of the earth from the station:
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Category Archives: Eyes in the Sky
Videos: Views of Hurricane Irma from space
** “Hurricane Irma 2017 Live Satellite Monitor – Huracan Irma – Latest Update”
** “The International Space Station’s external cameras captured a dramatic view of Hurricane Irma as it moved across the Atlantic Ocean Sept. 5. The National Hurricane Center had recently upgraded Irma to a Category 5 storm with hurricane warnings issued across the Caribbean.”
** “Watch Hurricane Irma Turn Into Category 5 Storm From Space”
** “Satellite Animation Sees Major Hurricane Irma Approaching Leeward Islands”
** “GOES-16 vs GOES-13 Imagery of Hurricane Irma”
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Satellite photos of Houston flooding
Check out the collection of side-by-side comparison of DigitalGlobe satellite images showing Houston before hurricane Harvey and after the flooding: Interactive before and after satellite photos show Harvey’s extreme flooding from orbit – Mashable
The company Deimos Imaging also posted several photos on Tweeter of Houston taken by their satellites: Houston flooding captured by Deimos-1 and Deimos-2 – Deimos Imaging –
#DEIMOS1 astounding animation shows before (May24) & after (Aug.31) #Harvey‘s devastating impact in Greater #Houston area #EmergencyResponse pic.twitter.com/lUttgncKxN
— DEIMOS IMAGING (@deimosimaging) September 1, 2017
Videos: Hurricane Harvey as seen from space
A view of hurricane Harvey from the ISS:
Some NOAA satellite imagery:
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Video: Satellite shows African greenery expand and recede as rains come and go
Images from the European Proba-V earth observation smallsat shows changes in African during the rainy season:
Space in Images – 2017 – 07 – Proba-V monitors African Sahel
ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite reveals the seasonal changes in Africa’s sub-Saharan Sahel, with the rainy season allowing vegetation to blossom between February (top) and September (bottom).
The semi-arid Sahel stretches more than 5000 km across Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean (Senegal, Mauritania) to the Red Sea (Sudan). The few months of the rainy season in the Sahel are much needed in these hot and sunny parts of Africa, and are critical for the food security and livelihood of their inhabitants.
The name Sahel can be translated from Arabic as coast or shore, considered as the ever-shifting landward ‘coastline’ of the arid Sahara Desert.
Smaller than a cubic metre, Proba-V nevertheless images the entire land surface of Earth every two days or less, allowing researchers around the globe to trace gradual shifts in vegetation.
A new set of timelapse videos shows the power of such rapid-repeat views.
Launched on 7 May 2013, Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.
Its main camera’s continent-spanning 2250 km swath width collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands at 300 m resolution and down to 100 m resolution in its central field of view.
VITO Remote Sensing in Belgium processes and then distributes Proba-V data to users worldwide. An online image gallery highlights some of the mission’s most striking images so far, including views of storms, fires and deforestation.
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