We recently received this question from Jeff, a reader in Colorado: We’ve been having lots of hazy days in Colorado. I’m sure it’s common over most of the U.S., Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Most likely, it’s also over Europe. I saw your images of fires burning in Russia. Could it be that a lot of […]
Bangor, ME 6 p.m. EDT From Jon Ranson: We had a great day and gathered fantastic data. It felt so good to be working and getting the data – finally. Unfortunately, our flight only lasted three hours. Then the Mission Manager, Martin Nowicki, came out of the cabin with a serious look on his face. […]
Wallops Island, Virginia 6:00 p.m. EDT From Jon Ranson: I’m back at Wallop’s this evening after a quick trip back home. Last evening we made the decision to not fly today, so the DBSAR RAID could be fixed. I’m not an engineer, and couldn’t offer much to the RAID-fixing effort, so I had a little […]
At Earth Observatory, we try to bring you views of as many natural events as we can fit into a day. Some days, the satellites don’t have a good view. And other days, we have to leave the office because of an earthquake… While most of the U.S. East Coast is talking about the […]
Marshall scientist Bill Cooke and his team, from the Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center, watched the sky during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. The team used the Marshall meteor cameras the evening of August 12 and into the early morning August 13 to capture images of the Perseids. Meteor over Tullahoma, …
Ever since we posted an image last week of a coccolithophore plankton bloom, I have been trading notes with Peter Eick, an Earth Observatory reader and seismic surveyor working in the Barents Sea. “I look at your site every morning,” he wrote. “I found today kind of neat since I am in your picture and saw the […]
Wallops Island, Virginia 5:30 p.m. From Jon Ranson: This morning started out just perfect for collecting data from the air. It was a beautiful sunny day with good weather, and we did our best to take advantage of it. We were up in the air early and take-off went well, without a hitch. The check-out […]
“… complex datasets require complex visualizations. In general though, simpler is usually the best way to go in the sense that you should make it as easy as possible for a reader to understand what’s going on. You’re the storyteller, so it’s your job to tell them what’s interesting.” —Nathan Yau, author of Visualize This: […]
Wallops Island, Virginia 9 p.m. EDT From Jon Ranson: It’s a beautiful evening here at Wallops Island! I’m here to join our Eco-3D team, and I’m sure looking forward to starting our flight campaign tomorrow morning. I’m really excited to be a part of the mission, and expect to have a good week gathering great […]
Post composed by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory data visualizer One thing we occasionally hear from readers is “Why don’t you have images of…?” We actually get some really fantastic ideas just that way. For instance, just a few weeks ago, we got a request for satellite imagery of the slide at Medvezhiy Glacier in Tajikistan courtesy of […]
