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Monday, February 22, 2021

Live Satellite Images Of The Earth


I've lost count of the divulge of times I've been asked whether I know whatever maps alongside real-time satellite imagery of the Earth. The brusk response is that nosotros aren't quite at that topographic point yet. There is no map that tin demo you lot real-time satellite imagery of the whole Earth. However at that topographic point are websites that tin demo you lot satellite imagery which was taken but a few hours ago.

NASA as well as USGS' Landsat 8 completes an entire painting of the populace every xvi days. Mapbox's Landsat-live map really uses the latest Landsat imagery to render 1 of the virtually up-to-date satellite maps of the whole Earth.

Landsat-live uses the latest Landsat 8 satellite imagery to render a close real-time satellite sentiment of the globe at xxx meter resolution. Because the map uses the virtually recent Landsat 8 satellite imagery many locations but about the populace volition travel affected past times cloud cover. If you lot discover your town is obscured past times clouds you lot tin ever render to the map inwards xvi days fourth dimension to encounter if the side past times side exceed of Landsat 8 has provided clearer imagery.


Japan's Himawari-8 satellite is inwards stationary range over New Republic of Guinea where it captures some genuinely amazing imagery of the Earth. Every twenty-four hr menstruum the satellite captures imagery of the western Pacific, Australia, as well as parts of Asia, Antarctica & Alaska.

There is no alive feed from Himawari-8 but you lot tin sentiment time-lapse animations of the latest Himawari-8 satellite imagery on Himawari-8 Real-time Web. Himawari-8 Real-time Web includes views of globe that were really taken today. You tin likewise run the calendar to sentiment historical imagery from Himawari-8 for whatever other date.


You tin likewise sentiment some of today's imagery of globe captured past times Landsat 8. NASA's FarEarth Observer displays near-real fourth dimension imagery from Landsat seven as well as Landsat 8.

Using the bill of fare to the correct of the map you lot tin select to sentiment recordings of the globe which were captured today. As the recordings play you lot tin encounter the moving imagery of the globe that was captured past times Landsat seven or 8. The modest inset map shows you lot the moving seat of the satellite at the fourth dimension of the recording equally the satellite orbits the Earth.