Astronauts Snag Dramatic Photographs of Alaska’s Erupting Volcano
“Astronauts living on board the International Space Station managed to get these dramatic pictures of the Pavlof Volcano as it erupted over the weekend. The volcano began acting up last Monday, the 13th, its first eruption since 2007.”
See more images at The Atlantic.
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Bay of Biscay’s blooming Phytoplankton
Incredible shots tweeted by the rock-star astronaut from the International Space Station
Wow. Absolutely must see.
Chris Hadfield’s Mission Reflections.
I’m going to make a real effort to have a beer/30 minute convo with this man by the end of 2014. Committed!
Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth
Tremendous. Surprise ending.
A heraldic Spring dragon of ice roars rampant off the coast of Newfoundland.
This is Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s newest shot from the space station. Melting ice caught in currents on the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.
The yin and yang of ice and land at Lake of the Woods.
Earth from Space: Water and ice
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The largest outlet glacier on Greenland’s east coast is pictured in the forty-eighth edition. Via ESA.
Enormous grassland fires in Siberia/Mongolia this morning.
I’m used to rivers that know what they’re doing.
Some smart people mapped every picture Colonel Chris Hadfield took from the International Space Station. Mind: Blown. The pic above shows a small mining town and its pollution during winter in China. Fantastic website.
ice fractures on the Beaufort Sea
Florida Keys looking very fragile, via Col Chris Hadfield on the ISS.
Watch the slow creep of spring as it pushes the cold hand of winter back to the frigid north … only to succumb again next year, of course.
NASA’s MODIS imager senses Earth’s reflection of both visible and longer wavelength near-infrared light. Plants, full of chlorophyll, absorb most visible light (except for green, of course) and reflect near-infrared. By combining this with the reflection of snow, NASA can watch the yearly cycle of vegetation springing back and falling away.
I made a higher-res GIF here, and you can watch the full three-year animation here.
Soon, governments and citizens alike will be able to spot illegal loggers from space. A new tool called Global Forest Watch 2.0 will give anyone with a computer or smartphone the ability to zoom in on forests around the world and spy on illegal cutting operations in near-real time.
“Global Forest Watch 2.0 aims to transform access to information about what’s happening to forests everywhere around the globe,” says Nigel Sizer, the director of the World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Initiative in Washington, D.C. “The platform allows people to see those numbers—how much clearing is done year by year in oil concessions in Indonesia, for example, or by a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon—without involving training in technology or science.”
The open-access online monitoring platform, which will include two major data sets when it launches in the first half of 2013, combines satellite technology, data sharing and social networks to combat deforestation.
The first dataset, provided by the NASA MODIS system, is updated every 16 days. Over that same period, algorithms compute the likelihood that any given 250-square-meter patch of forest has been cleared based upon the remote-sensing imagery. Higher spatial resolution data, provided by the University of Maryland, will be added annually. The platform relies upon cloud computing for storing the massive datasets involved in visualizing and processing the maps.
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