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World Sunlight Map
by Decius at 4:52 pm EST, Mar 30, 2005 |
Awesome. The cloud data in these maps is updated every three hours. This is the earth from space in nearest to realtime that anyone has come. |
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RE: World Sunlight Map
by noteworthy at 9:32 pm EST, Mar 30, 2005 |
Decius wrote:
] Awesome. The cloud data in these maps is updated every three
] hours. This is the earth from space in nearest to realtime
] that anyone has come. Realize that this is the same scientific data you had before, when I pointed you to the USGS / GOES data. This guy just wrote some glue to paste it onto a static world map. Cool glue, mind you, but it doesn't really change the scientific content. If an earthquake suddenly separated California from the continental United States, it would not show up on this map. |
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World Sunlight Map
by Acidus at 12:03 pm EST, Mar 30, 2005 |
] Known as a rectangular projection, this map is one way of
] looking at the spherical Earth as a flat map. Both the
] size of continents and their shape get distorted as you
] move away from the equator. Compare this with a Mercator
] projection, which greatly distorts sizes in favor of
] keeping the shapes correct, or a Peters projection which
] distorts shapes but gives a true indication of relative
] size.
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] Also available is a semi-realistic view of dawn and dusk
] from far above the Earth, a look at the moon, and
] information about how this works. On the same vein as the "world at night" photos, here are some cool maps the whole earth's surface. |
World Sunlight Map
by k at 12:23 pm EST, Mar 30, 2005 |
] Known as a rectangular projection, this map is one way of
] looking at the spherical Earth as a flat map. Both the
] size of continents and their shape get distorted as you
] move away from the equator. Compare this with a Mercator
] projection, which greatly distorts sizes in favor of
] keeping the shapes correct, or a Peters projection which
] distorts shapes but gives a true indication of relative
] size.
]
] Also available is a semi-realistic view of dawn and dusk
] from far above the Earth, a look at the moon, and
] information about how this works. On the same vein as the "world at night" photos, here are some cool maps the whole earth's surface. [ Neat... and check out the different projections too... -k] |
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