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Whole Earth images, Does any satellite provide regularly updated ones?
elakdawalla
post 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?

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post Nov 26 2007, 03:27 AM
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The photo of the Earth is from the Apollo 10 mission, taken at a distance of 100,000 nautical miles. Here is the link to the Apollo 10 Earth Photo
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post Nov 26 2007, 05:17 AM
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QUOTE (n1ckdrake @ Nov 25 2007, 09:27 PM) *
The photo of the Earth is from the Apollo 10 mission, taken at a distance of 100,000 nautical miles.

I knew it had to be from one of three missions -- Apollos 10, 11 or 15 -- due to the amount of the North Pole illuminated by the Sun. Since we appeared to be further from solstice than July, my best guess was Apollo 10 (which, of course, flew in May).

Nice to see I was right!

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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
- - scalbers   Hi - there are a few images collected by NASA at t...   Oct 9 2007, 03:16 PM
|- - ugordan   Great resource, Steve! Images I hadn't see...   Oct 9 2007, 04:50 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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