Category Archives: Eyes in the Sky

Activism, Eyes in the Sky

Chris Hadfield and the earth from space + When did you fall in love with the stars? – R. Branson

Canadian astronaut, author and singer, Chris Hadfield writes eloquently about his views of earth while on the International Space Station: Chris Hadfield: We Should Treat Earth as Kindly as We Treat Spacecraft – Wired Science

A photo taken by Chris Hadfield:

 “Tonight’s finale: Austra­lia. Jackson Pollock would have been even further inspired by seeing the Outback from orbit.” (January 24, 2013, 3:25 pm) Chris Hadfield

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Lots of people responded to a request from Richard Branson to tweet him about “When YOU fell in love with the stars” – Virgin.com.

Eyes in the Sky

Video: Typhoon Haiyan from space

A NASA video of the gigantic Haiyan storm that hit the Philippines:

On Friday Nov. 8, external cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Super-Typhoon Haiyan which struck the central Philippines municipality of Guiuan at the southern tip of the province of Eastern Samar with a force equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane.

Eyes in the Sky, Living in Space, Multiple media

Astronauts tweet latest great snapshots of earth

Check out this great collection of photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station and posted to earthlings via Twitter: NASA Shutdown Unleashes Beautiful Astronaut Photos on Twitter – News Watch

US astronaut Karen Nyberg tweeted this striking photo of storm clouds above Ghana on October 8, 2013. Credit: Karen Nyberg/NASA

US astronaut Karen Nyberg tweeted this striking photo of storm clouds
above Ghana  as seen from the International Space Station.on October 8, 2013.
Credit: Karen Nyberg/NASA

See many more such photos at The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, which also includes videos taken by the astros.

Asteroids & Comets, Eyes in the Sky, Multiple media

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:

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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.

 

Eyes in the Sky

Gallery of Islands seen from space + Watching NK launch site growing

Here’s a great collection of satellite images of islands: Islands from the air: Stunning photographs taken from space show Earth’s archipelagos as you’ve never seen them before – Mail Online. (Note that the images were not made “from thousands of miles away” but typically from satellites circling the earth orbit at at around 400 miles (700km) above the earth’s surface.

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 Another of the images in the collection is of the Palm Jumeirah man-made island in Dubai:

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Here is a series of images showing the island during its construction: World of Change: Urbanization of Dubai.

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Here’s a very different kind of example of satellite imaging applications: Satellite images show North Korea expanding rocket launch site, analysts say – Fox News