{"id":4260,"date":"2013-09-02T02:35:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2013-09-02T02:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T02:35:41","slug":"gallery-of-islands-seen-from-space-watching-nk-launch-site-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4260","title":{"rendered":"Gallery of Islands seen from space + Watching NK launch site growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. (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.<\/p>\n

\"ISS013-E-28610_lrg[1]\"<\/a>Nukuoro Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia <\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Another of the images in the collection is of the Palm Jumeirah man-made island in Dubai:<\/p>\n

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Here is a series of images showing the island during its construction: World of Change: Urbanization of Dubai<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading Gallery of Islands seen from space + Watching NK launch site growing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes-in-the-sky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-16I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7280,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7280","url_meta":{"origin":4260,"position":0},"title":"ESA Mars Express: Views of the ancient Osuga Valles flood terrain","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The European Space Agency (ESA)\u00a0posts this article based on images from the Mars Express\u00a0orbiter: Beauty from chaos Osuga Valles 10 April 2014\u00a0Beautiful streamlined islands and narrow gorges were carved by fast-flowing water pounding through a small, plateau region near the southeastern margin of the vast Vallis Marineris canyon system. 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