Four erupting volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula are visible in a single satellite image.
Odds and Ends: Kamchatkan Volcanoes
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Four erupting volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula are visible in a single satellite image.
Poorly chosen map projections can be very misleading, as demonstrated by the claim that “most” of the Northern Hemisphere was covered in snow and ice in early February.
Over the past week or two, there has been severe flooding in Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and the Phillipines, but all we’ve shown on the Earth Observatory is the flooding in Australia. Why?
A few notes on a successful 2010 Fall AGU.
If anyone is going to the Fall AGU meeting and would like to know more about the Earth Observatory & data visualization, I'll be giving two talks, both on Thursday the 16th.
One of my (many) pet peeves in data visualization is vertical exaggeration. For example, here’s a 3D rendered view (from the south looking north) of Mount Etna: Compared to the real thing, photographed from the International Space Station (from the north looking south): The 3D view is scaled so the volcano appears much higher than […]
In the process of writing captions I can run into some amazing stuff, like this photo of incandescent rocks arcing through the sky during the collapse of a lava bench near Kilauea.
Strong convection created “hot towers” near the eye of Tropical Storm Danielle.
From the USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory.
North and South America, August 9, 2010. Full Caption By Mark Robinson, LROC Team. As LRO orbits the Moon every two hours sending down a stream of science data, it is easy to forget how close the Moon is to the Earth. The average distance between the two heavenly bodies is just 384,399 km (238,854 […]
