You have possibly seen some of these but check out 36 perfectly timed animal shots. Taken with high precision, but most of the time just lucky shots. Animal photography at it’s best, at least in a fun way. Enjoy …
This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands.
The satellite uses a special sensor designed to view the Earth at night, which is sensitive enough to detect light from a single ship at sea.
While man-made light sources are responsible for much of the glow, natural lights, including bushfires across Western Australia are clearly visible in the video”. ABC News
Published on Dec 5, 2012
This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new Suomi NPP satellite, which has at least 10 times better light-resolving power than previous night-viewing satellites. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NightLights/
We have many natural disasters in Australia most recently were the devastating floods in the State that I live Queensland in 2011. We therefore feel for the people in American after Sandy. He are a few pictures I have collected of damage in New York City.
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I hope the recovery is going well. I know that other areas have also suffered a lot of damage.