Japan's New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes - by Derek Watkins/ Science/ Interactive/ International New York Times/ The New York Times/ nytimes.com
"The Times is highlighting some of its most engaging journalism of the year: Pictures from a Japanese weather satellite’s first official day paint a living portrait of Earth.
A sense of perspective is unavoidable from 22,000 miles out. Looking down at Earth from that distance — almost three times farther than the diameter of the planet itself — allows a view of the globe as a massive organic system, pulsing with continuous movement. Below, images from the Himawari-8 weather satellite's first official day paint a living portrait of the western Pacific, with Typhoons Chan-hom and Nangka spinning slowly westward..."
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"The Times is highlighting some of its most engaging journalism of the year: Pictures from a Japanese weather satellite’s first official day paint a living portrait of Earth.
A sense of perspective is unavoidable from 22,000 miles out. Looking down at Earth from that distance — almost three times farther than the diameter of the planet itself — allows a view of the globe as a massive organic system, pulsing with continuous movement. Below, images from the Himawari-8 weather satellite's first official day paint a living portrait of the western Pacific, with Typhoons Chan-hom and Nangka spinning slowly westward..."
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Richard
Best of 2015: Satellite Images of Earth
