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Tech Crunch reports that NASA has produced a video from images made by its Deep Space Climate Observatory. The spacecraft is in a Lissajous orbit around the Sun–Earth L1 Lagrange point, from which the sunlit side of the Earth can always be seen. The 167-second video (warning: has narration) was made from images collected over the course of a year.
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Video: "One Year on Earth" from NASA's DISCOVR
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Monday July 25 2016, @08:06AM
They should just put one frame every 24 hours, so it would show the same spot of the planet instead of spinning, which wasn't very smooth anyway. Then you would see the polar oscillation and the clouds moving. But somebody would probably complain about not seeing "their" spot.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 25 2016, @10:03AM
I was thinking along the same lines. The video moves along pretty fast, and I'm not sure where on earth I'm looking at any given time. You think you've identified a coastline, and it's gone. It's just so much blurry motion as it stands.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @11:29AM
I hope they have enough data to generate such a movie (in fact 24 separatate movies, for each time-zone).
I find this particular movie headache inducing (I tried watching with no sound; maybe with sound it makes sense even like this).
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 25 2016, @05:45PM
24 separatate movies, for each time-zone
I think 4 would suffice, we don't have to go overboard here.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday July 25 2016, @08:43PM
4, like the corners of a CUBE, is it?
Yeah, I see you Gene Ray.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 26 2016, @02:56AM
4, like the corners of a CUBE, is it?
Who am I? Picasso?
Maybe I'm behind the times, but doesn't a cube have 8?
How many quadrants are there on a globe?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday July 25 2016, @09:29PM
It seems the satellite doesn't take its pictures at the same time every day for every location, so even if you pick the closest frames for your location, the continents jump back and forth and the misalignment ruins any kind of animation you might see from the clouds.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 26 2016, @03:08AM
Can't tell. I think I read that it took a picture every two hours. If that is accurate, then using 1 out of 12 in the animation would produce the effect I'm looking for, I think [youtube.com]...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..