Friends,
Every now and then, my evolutionist colleague writes a blog worth sharing.
This one is a ‘video’ of earth from a geostationary satellite.
I hope you enjoy as much as I. And I hope you consider it as much art and science as I do.
Wayne
According to YouTube and HuffPo, this amazing video of several days in the Earth’s northern hemisphere were taken by a Russian weather satellite that snaps a photo every 30 minutes with a resolution of 121 megapixels. From YouTube:
A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears green in these images, and shows vegetation. The images are the largest whole disk images of our planet, the resolution is 1 kilometer per pixel. The images are “masked” by a circular barrier that blocks out the light of the Sun and other stars. This is to prevent damage to the camera by exposure to direct sunlight. City lights are not visible because they are thousands of times less bright than the reflection of sunlight…
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