Planet Earth's Northern Hemisphere in 121 mb+video

Planet Earth's Northern Hemisphere in 121 mb
Planet Earth's Northern Hemisphere in 121 mb

A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears orange in these images, and shows vegetation. The images were obtained beginning on May 14th, 2011 and end on May 20th. The images are the largest whole disk images of our planet, the resolution is 1 kilometer per pixel. The images are "masked" by a circular barrier that blocks out the light of the Sun and other stars. This is to prevent damage to the camera by exposure to direct sunlight. The images have been interpolated (blended) to create a smooth animation.




Images Copyright NTs OMZ. Videos Copyright James Drake

See more Electro-L movies and full-size images at http://Planet--Earth.ca/
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The archive of full resolution unprocessed images is available on the NTsOMZ website; You will have to download them via FTP
http://eng.ntsomz.ru/electro/source_images

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