Whole Earth images, Does any satellite provide regularly updated ones? |
Whole Earth images, Does any satellite provide regularly updated ones? |
 Mar 8 2007, 04:17 PM
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There are tons of Earth observing satellites producing gorgeous detailed images, but I'm trying to figure out if any of them is capable of producing full-globe images of Earth on some regularly updated basis. Does anyone here know of such a beast? Are there weather monitoring satellites that do this?
--Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 9 2007, 03:16 PM
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Hi - there are a few images collected by NASA at this link:
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/Phot...l?set=EarthDisc -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Oct 9 2007, 04:50 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Great resource, Steve! Images I hadn't seen before. I only browsed the few images from the Apollo set, but it looks like a gem.
Sadly, the highest resolution versions have too high a compression ratio set and the scans turn weirdly green. I tried to remove the green background. Two nice Apollo 8 shots, reduced in size:   I'm a sucker for those thru-the-window shots or, in general, views which show objects of recognizable size with which a human can relate. Apollo 10 Earthrise, always an awesome sight. So they say... 
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elakdawalla Whole Earth images Mar 8 2007, 04:17 PM
djellison Well - there's Meteosat, the European geostati... Mar 8 2007, 04:32 PM
tedstryk Modis covers the entire earth every one to two day... Mar 8 2007, 04:46 PM tedstryk On second thought, Emily, you are breaking the law... Mar 8 2007, 04:47 PM Juramike This will get you the "other" side of th... Mar 8 2007, 04:39 PM stevesliva You'd have to be pretty far out there to fit t... Mar 8 2007, 04:40 PM Pando QUOTE (stevesliva @ Mar 8 2007, 08:40 AM)... Mar 9 2007, 01:53 AM Tom Womack I think you could get full-globe images by combini... Mar 8 2007, 04:44 PM djellison Thought I would see just how hard it is to merge a... Mar 8 2007, 04:47 PM ngunn QUOTE (djellison @ Mar 8 2007, 04:47 PM) ... Mar 8 2007, 10:25 PM elakdawalla I'm asking this question on behalf of Lou, and... Mar 8 2007, 04:49 PM djellison Again...TEEEeeechnnically - one could take one of ... Mar 8 2007, 04:53 PM tedstryk I want to make a comment here, but I can't wit... Mar 8 2007, 05:16 PM helvick QUOTE ... the only global image of the earth is th... Mar 8 2007, 05:18 PM climber This is one of the more inspiring Earth image to m... Mar 9 2007, 09:39 AM remcook a shame it's not a real image. Would be nice t... Mar 9 2007, 10:22 AM Juramike I wonder if one could see the shadow resulting fro... Mar 9 2007, 04:25 PM remcook ISS sure had a good look: e.g.
http://www.nasa.gov... Mar 9 2007, 04:35 PM Juramike Very cool! I hadn't seen that before. Th... Mar 9 2007, 06:51 PM Hari I create global cloud mosaics for the xplanet proj... Mar 13 2007, 02:56 PM neave EUMESAT is a geo-stationary satellite with full di... Mar 13 2007, 03:08 PM scalbers For clouds this is one of the things I'm worki... Apr 21 2007, 11:40 PM edstrick The fundamental problem is that there are no space... Apr 22 2007, 07:52 AM DDAVIS I used to make Earth textures from weather sats us... Apr 22 2007, 09:12 AM scalbers Greetings,
I can show a somewhat dated example of... Apr 22 2007, 02:15 PM helvick Steve that is stunning.
Will the newer version b... Apr 22 2007, 02:24 PM DDAVIS In a recent update to my Earth texture I added gas... Apr 22 2007, 03:03 PM scalbers Helvick - glad the animation played OK for you. I... Apr 22 2007, 03:23 PM edstrick "...I think the geostationary satellites see ... Apr 24 2007, 09:21 AM ElGrifon WOW those are just incredable images of the Earth,... Apr 27 2007, 12:46 AM djellison Just to fill up this thread appropriately - from t... Apr 27 2007, 07:31 AM belleraphon1 WOW..
These whole Earth images from departing and... May 2 2007, 12:00 PM elakdawalla I totally forgot to return to this thread after cr... May 2 2007, 04:10 PM lyford Nice collection, Emily.
I keep forgetting there... May 2 2007, 06:10 PM scalbers Yes - excellent website Emily. Nice summary of the... May 5 2007, 02:51 PM djellison The page has been updated with my Galileo efforts ... May 9 2007, 07:21 AM Phil Stooke Don't forget Lunar Orbiter, Surveyor and the Z... May 9 2007, 12:43 PM ljk4-1 The Japanese Mars probe Nozomi also took images of... May 9 2007, 01:10 PM AlexBlackwell NEAR Shoemaker during the 1998 Earth swingby May 9 2007, 09:52 PM djellison I plan to do to NEAR what I've done to the Gal... May 10 2007, 01:36 PM tedstryk Great Galileo work, Doug.
By the way, there are... May 11 2007, 01:40 PM ugordan Wow, awesome, Ted! May 11 2007, 01:54 PM tedstryk Emily, you are welcome to add this to the planetar... May 14 2007, 02:08 PM elakdawalla QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 14 2007, 07:08 AM) ... May 14 2007, 03:00 PM ugordan I see Doug's Galileo Earth rotation made APOD ... May 14 2007, 11:54 AM djellison It's a specular reflection off a lake in Uragu... May 14 2007, 01:31 PM ugordan I thought about a lake specular, the specular poin... May 14 2007, 01:39 PM djellison It's not packed solid cloud though - it's ... May 14 2007, 02:18 PM Phil Stooke Just to clarify one point, Ted's Earthrise is ... May 14 2007, 03:23 PM tedstryk Doug: Congratulations!
Phil: I had no idea.... May 14 2007, 03:47 PM tedstryk Here we are then...
Full Resolution May 14 2007, 03:58 PM DDAVIS In images 2 and 4 of the Zond sequence the Lunar h... May 27 2007, 01:40 AM tedstryk It is actually image 2 that isn't a valid part... May 27 2007, 02:00 AM Ant103 It's not a whole Earth picture but it's of... Jul 20 2007, 01:26 PM climber QUOTE (Ant103 @ Jul 20 2007, 03:26 PM) It... Jul 20 2007, 07:27 PM CAP-Team this link works Jul 20 2007, 08:53 PM LivingNDixie This is one of my favorites, it makes a great wall... Jul 23 2007, 04:51 PM djellison That's just renered from the Blue Marble data ... Jul 23 2007, 08:37 PM MouseOnMars The Japanese GMS-5 satellite used to produce full ... Jul 23 2007, 11:13 PM MouseOnMars QUOTE (scalbers @ Oct 9 2007, 04:16 PM) H... Oct 9 2007, 07:59 PM ljk4-1 Twin Blue Marbles
http://earthobservatory.nasa.go... Oct 10 2007, 07:31 PM Stu Those new Twin Blue Marble images are just spectac... Oct 10 2007, 09:12 PM ustrax QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 10 2007, 10:12 PM) Those... Oct 10 2007, 10:01 PM n1ckdrake This is one of my favorites.
Nov 25 2007, 06:49 AM dilo Cool picture, n1ckdrake! Which source/mission?... Nov 25 2007, 05:53 PM Paolo QUOTE (dilo @ Nov 25 2007, 06:53 PM) Cool... Nov 25 2007, 06:50 PM remcook oeee is that a Kelvin wave? Cool! Nov 25 2007, 08:00 PM n1ckdrake The photo of the Earth is from the Apollo 10 missi... Nov 26 2007, 03:27 AM dvandorn QUOTE (n1ckdrake @ Nov 25 2007, 09:27 PM)... Nov 26 2007, 05:17 AM n1ckdrake This image is from the Apollo 16 mission.
Link Nov 26 2007, 04:10 AM dvandorn QUOTE (n1ckdrake @ Nov 25 2007, 10:10 PM)... Nov 26 2007, 05:20 AM peter59 This image is from the Mariner-10 spacecraft.
Im... Dec 29 2007, 04:04 PM ugordan Here's a montage of Earth and Moon from MESSEN... Feb 5 2008, 02:59 PM Stu QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 5 2008, 02:59 PM) He... Feb 9 2008, 08:39 AM ugordan You're welcome, Stu! Feb 9 2008, 05:16 PM Stu Oh my....
"Beautiful" doesn't even ... Feb 5 2008, 03:23 PM djellison I wonder if, with the Dawn flyby - we might get a ... Feb 5 2008, 03:24 PM ugordan Now that you mention it, the Mercury image and thi... Feb 5 2008, 03:41 PM rogelio Nice picture, ugordan.
Are those smoke plumes fro... Feb 5 2008, 03:54 PM charborob Very nice image, except the Moon is not in its cor... Feb 5 2008, 04:12 PM ugordan QUOTE (charborob @ Feb 5 2008, 05:12 PM) ... Feb 5 2008, 04:19 PM tedstryk Amazing! Feb 5 2008, 05:15 PM Pertinax QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 5 2008, 12:19 PM) Ro... Aug 4 2008, 03:50 PM centsworth_II QUOTE (charborob @ Feb 5 2008, 11:12 AM) ... Feb 5 2008, 06:23 PM Ant103 Good god
I've found the desktop wallpaper of ... Feb 5 2008, 05:42 PM remcook amazing work as usual! Feb 5 2008, 06:28 PM Juramike Thank y'all for this thread!
Using thes... Feb 8 2008, 12:07 PM Juramike Combination of Water Vapor (primarily), Infrared, ... Jul 6 2008, 08:51 PM ugordan Ooh... funky stuff! Jul 6 2008, 08:58 PM DDAVIS Thanks to Robert Beal of the John Hopkins Applied ... Aug 3 2008, 01:02 AM Stu That's quite a coup you have there, well done.... Aug 3 2008, 07:13 AM Juramike Animated loop of the Atlantic Basin of the Earth f... Aug 21 2008, 02:51 AM PhilCo126 Nice picture, ugordan, Moon orientation a bit too ... Aug 21 2008, 06:19 PM hendric Juramike,
The best places for weather discussion... Aug 21 2008, 07:28 PM Juramike Weather Underground is a great site. I'm a hu... Aug 21 2008, 10:24 PM jamescanvin Images of storms are rather off topic for this thr... Sep 15 2008, 07:33 AM |
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