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niwtsol 2 hours ago [-]
Pictures of earth from space will never lose their luster for me. I wish money spent on missiles and bombs could be redirected for rockets to launch satellites for scientific purposes.
bajard 2 hours ago [-]
Why do most (almost all) images of Earth have Africa in front? Are they stock photos? Is it because only the Sahara Desert is frequently visible?
xandrius 2 hours ago [-]
Dunno, maybe the person/team are from Europe? Or maybe if you center it on Asia or the Americas you get a side full of just ocean?
matja 1 hours ago [-]
It's just the default (0,0) latitude/longitude
jlhawn 2 hours ago [-]
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rustyhancock 6 hours ago [-]
I wonder how hard it'll be to capture some of these images yourself.
NOAA decommissioned it's last LRPT/APT capable satillites.
Russia has a couple open access 137MHz sats available Meteor M2-3 and M2-4 I believe they have become flakey with age, damage and other issues.
Those you could stand in your garden with a simple vdipole antenna and a cheap SDR to capture images.
nightjar 4 hours ago [-]
It seems like someone did just that recently! They used an SDRplay rather than a cheap RTL-SDR but the antenna is simple.
That's a really nice write up and the SDR looks quite nice for the price.
It brings back memories one of the things that made radio waves feel "real" to me was a similar setup where we raised and lowered the antenna parallel to the ground and saw the reflections strengthen the received signal or make it nearly vanish.
knowaveragejoe 6 hours ago [-]
Are the images made available in realtime anywhere?
NOAA decommissioned it's last LRPT/APT capable satillites.
Russia has a couple open access 137MHz sats available Meteor M2-3 and M2-4 I believe they have become flakey with age, damage and other issues.
Those you could stand in your garden with a simple vdipole antenna and a cheap SDR to capture images.
https://gdamdam.github.io/meteor-satellite-reception/meteor-...
It brings back memories one of the things that made radio waves feel "real" to me was a similar setup where we raised and lowered the antenna parallel to the ground and saw the reflections strengthen the received signal or make it nearly vanish.