Planet Earth’s Northern Hemisphere
May 15, 2012
A time-lapse of Planet Earth, created from images produced by the geostationary Electro-L Weather Satellite. The images were obtained beginning on May 14th, and end on May 20th, 2011. The satellite’s camera takes 121 million megapixel images of Earth every half-hour. credit: James Drake
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Environment, Entertainment Culture, Remote sensing, Earth orbits, Astrodynamics, James Drake, Planet, Weather satellite, Planet Earth, Satellite, Geostationary orbit
