Comments on: Remote Views

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:36:54 +0000

[link="http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/satellite.html"]http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/satellite.html[/link]

By: Marcos

Marcos — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:34:30 +0000

One of my favorites, Carl Sagan’s “Pale blue dot”

http://earthbydavidbrin.pbwiki.com/f/1151367563/earth-pale-blue-dot.jpg

By: Emily Lakdawalla

Emily Lakdawalla — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:59:22 +0000

Here’s a page I put together on all the views of Earth I could find, taken by spacecraft that were departing Earth entirely:
http://planetary.org/explore/topics/earth/spacecraft.html

By: Marshall Eubanks

Marshall Eubanks — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:52:59 +0000

Start here

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/

and dig. Then there is EUMET sat

http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/RGB/

This site gives whole Earth views from a variety of satellites :

http://www.fvalk.com/day_image.htm

By: uncle sam

uncle sam — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:48:52 +0000

This is supposed to be a good site for pics of Earth: http://www.flashearth.com/.
But nothing (?) compares to the classic shot from Apollo 8 of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon (remembering all that makes me feel old, as does my first vote for a Presidential candidate younger than me.) BTW, there doesn’t seem to be a big deal going on about the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing (with inevitable argument over whether we should believe Neil Armstrong’s claim he said “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:29:06 +0000

I hope Ting get’s the shot and from what I’ve read about him, he has the chops to make it happen.

An earlier commenter said, “Too bad AMS has no real scientific justification.” I disagree.

If AMS does find anti-matter atoms, we would have a better understanding of symmetry-breaking in the early universe. I think more important, the AMS is also going to be detecting cosmic rays — collision events at much higher energies than the LHC.

If the AMS detects no anti-matter atoms but does detect superpartners (or other speculated high-energy particles), that would be plenty of scientific justification. No anti-matter atoms, in and of itself, would also be an interesting find.

By: rbooth

rbooth — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:17:27 +0000

I hate to tell you this, but it appears that the Tate satellite is (how can I put this kindly) fictional. See this webpage for an interview where the creator reveals all:
http://www.dshed.net/digest/04/content/week2/tate_in_space.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:36:15 +0000

I wouldn’t bet against Ting either. Too bad AMS has no real scientific justification. It’s an example of a big ego backed by a Nobel Prize successfully bypassing normal peer review procedures to get a pet project funded.

By: IvanM

IvanM — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:24:09 +0000

“I cannot seem to get NASA’s ISS webcam stream to work.”

It doesn’t work for me either at the moment. Could be capacity problems, as you suggest.

I also use a Mac, and I’ve had success using mplayer and/or VLC (www.videolan.org) to play the Windows Media version of their live TV stream. The Quicktime version of the stream has never seemed to work, even using the official Quicktime player. The Realplayer version works in mplayer (crashes VLC, for some reason) but is crappier than the Windows Media version.

By the way, if you want to use an external player like VLC, you have to become a bit adept at extracting .asx/.asf links to feed to VLC (use VLC’s “Open Network” menu item, btw). In NASA’s case, you can see them inside the javascript: links (it helps if you have your browser’s status bar turned on so that you can see the content of links). They really ought to make it easier to use an external player– I’ll try sending them a comment about that.

By: changcho

changcho — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:44:29 +0000

See here:

http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/earth/geostationary.html

And here (you’ll need to register for his latter one):

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/browseleaf.html