{"id":4794,"date":"2013-10-05T16:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2013-10-05T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:09:33","slug":"the-chelyabinsk-meteor-in-weather-sat-images-glorious-earth-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"The Chelyabinsk meteor in weather sat images + Glorious earth images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting account of tracking down images from the Russian Elektro-L\u00a0weather satellite showing the trail of the fireball meteor that struck over Chelyabinsk last February:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/2013\/20131004-egorov-elektro-l-chelyabinsk.html\" target=\"_d\">On space kindness and the Chelyabinsk meteor &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a\u00a0GIF animation of the meteor created from images made by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eumetsat.int\/Home\/index.htm\">EUMETSAT<\/a>\u00a0Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/earth\/20131004_Chelyabinsk2.html\" target=\"_d\">Trails of Chelyabinsk viewed from space &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sequence of beautiful full color images of earth produced by Elektro-L over January 2013:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PTuztgc8T6searth?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The satellite images the earth every 30 minutes. Twice a year during an equinox, it <a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/3-earth\/2013\/20131004_elektro-l-apod.png\" target=\"_blank\">captures an entire hemisphere<\/a> in a single shot with no night terminator line in view.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting account of tracking down images from the Russian Elektro-L\u00a0weather satellite showing the trail of the fireball meteor that struck over Chelyabinsk last February:\u00a0On space kindness and the Chelyabinsk meteor &#8211; The Planetary Society. And here is a\u00a0GIF animation of the meteor created from images made by the\u00a0EUMETSAT\u00a0Meteosat-10 geostationary satellite :\u00a0Trails of Chelyabinsk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Chelyabinsk meteor in weather sat images + Glorious earth images<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[75,27,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-eyes-in-the-sky","category-multiple-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1fk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":678,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=678","url_meta":{"origin":4794,"position":0},"title":"More on Asteroid 2014 DA14 and the Chelyabinsk meteor","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's Asteroids and Comets web site has a lot of good info about both the flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14 and the meteor fireball over central Russian. * NASA - Asteroid 2012 DA14 as Seen from Siding Spring, Australia: * Near-Earth Asteroid Makes Preview Appearance -\u00a0 a report and another\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"728241main_pia16737-226[1]","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/728241main_pia16737-2261.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":663,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=663","url_meta":{"origin":4794,"position":1},"title":"Update on the Russian meteor fireball event","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some more articles and resources about the meteor event over Russia today: Spaceweather.com\u00a0 - Feb.15.13 Meteor Infographic Chelyabinsk: What, Exactly, Just Happened? - PJ Media Russian Fireball Is Biggest Meteor Blast in 100 Years - Space.com Satellite watches from space as meteor explodes - NBC News Nuclear-like in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/KOPjfrkLslI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5214,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5214","url_meta":{"origin":4794,"position":2},"title":"Chelyabinsk fireball &#8211; bigger than thought and more common","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Papers this week in Science and Nature journals describe studies of the Chelyabinsk meteor fireball last February. One paper estimates that the meteoroid was twice as massive as originally estimated. A Science paper combines Chelyabinsk with the\u00a0Tunguska event in Siberia in 1908 to estimate that the rate of such impacts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Asteroids &amp; Comets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Asteroids &amp; Comets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=75"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/IPH9OUNUalA\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":808,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=808","url_meta":{"origin":4794,"position":3},"title":"Video: Lessons from the Chelyabinsk meteor","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an interesting discussion [with Dr. David Morrison and Dr. Guy Consolmagno] at the SETI Institute about \"What Lessons to Learn from the Chelyabinsk Meteor?\" http:\/\/youtu.be\/dssEZiFg8Eg","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/dssEZiFg8Eg\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":785,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=785","url_meta":{"origin":4794,"position":4},"title":"The Chelyabinsk Bolide by Don Davis","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Master space artist Don Davis has created a wonderful rendering of the Chelyabinsk meteor fireball. 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