The Chelyabinsk meteor in weather sat images + Glorious earth images

Here’s an interesting account of tracking down images from the Russian Elektro-L weather satellite showing the trail of the fireball meteor that struck over Chelyabinsk last February: On space kindness and the Chelyabinsk meteor – The Planetary Society.

And here is a GIF animation of the meteor created from images made by the EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite : Trails of Chelyabinsk viewed from space – The Planetary Society.

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Here is a sequence of beautiful full color images of earth produced by Elektro-L over January 2013:

The satellite images the earth every 30 minutes. Twice a year during an equinox, it captures an entire hemisphere in a single shot with no night terminator line in view.