Planet Earth's Northern Hemisphere

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.




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[Abdelghani AFIF]

سبحان الله

[dev4freedom]

Russian Satellite Takes 121 Megapixel Image And Video Of Earth

[PSzomi]

yep but this is not cool

[JPuella]

> Earth is not rotating...

maybe because sputnik on geostationary orbit? :-D

[PSzomi]

whot a shit'it?

was looking like 2D gif in HD

earh its not rotating

[Feño Caimanque Maulén]

damn, it looks so different than 10 years ago

[Waqar Zeb]

I think this orbitar speed is equal the the speed of earth's rotation. i.e 24.1h/r around its axis. Amazing video!

[aleksanrov aleksandrov]

Electro-L  РОССИЯ РУЛИТ

[Анастасия Светлая]

Какая Земля всё - таки красивая и живая! Давайте буде беречь её!!!

[VurigDraakje]

A cloud moves with an avarage of 60-80mph, the diameter of earth is 7926 miles. So in order for the cloud to move from one side to the other side takes him: 7926 / 80 = 99,075 hours which is 4 days to travel the entire earth. Also keep in mind the coriolis effect; clouds do not move in a straight line.

[Angirasa Acharya]

The clouds barely moved! For time-lapse, I find it hard to believe the clouds did not fly past over the days t took to make this video.  Whaaaa!