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Post by skully Wed 16 May 2012, 07:17

From a Russian weather satellite...

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Post by tricycle Wed 16 May 2012, 07:52

There are a few more of those images.
Australia-


Satellite is Elektro L N1, which is directly over the Indian Ocean. Apparently has an image periodicity of 30 minutes usually, but can be reduced to 15 minutes, and has a resolution of 1km for visible spectrum and 4km for IR.

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Post by skully Wed 16 May 2012, 07:56

Cool. Cheers, t.
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Post by LeFromage Wed 16 May 2012, 09:06

skully wrote:From a Russian weather satellite...


What's all that brown shit? Rust?
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Post by tricycle Wed 16 May 2012, 09:10

Possibly shit itself.

It's the IR wavelength that's rendered to the visible spectrum, the IR waves were used to detect vegetation, so the red bits are some form of vegetation.

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Post by skully Wed 16 May 2012, 09:11

Dello wrote:
skully wrote:From a Russian weather satellite...


What's all that brown shit? Rust?
It's colour-enhanced. You can click on "True colour" in top right to see what our blue marble actually looks like.
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Post by Brass Monkey Wed 16 May 2012, 11:31

Great stuff. Nice one!
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Post by PlanetPakistan Wed 16 May 2012, 14:08

Wow looks so beautiful! You can't even tell how many douchebags live on this planet.
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