Wow are you stupid? Im not even on about ground scanning satellites, like google earth is mapped with, im talking about distant sats which can view the whole planet at once like the apollo images, thats all nothing more to my wish than that, to simply see the whole earth at once and to see it change over time, they have the sats out that far and are no doubt already watching the earth like this for any number of reasons, i would just like to see the images online thats all, like we get to see soho and others, closest i've found is GOES which isn't very good but at least that puts everyones silly arguments to rest as to why they would do it because they already do!
Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled
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Wow are you stupid? Im not even on about ground scanning satellites, like google earth is mapped with, im talking about distant sats which can view the whole planet at once like the apollo images, thats all nothing more to my wish than that, to simply see the whole earth at once and to see it change over time, they have the sats out that far and are no doubt already watching the earth like this for any number of reasons, i would just like to see the images online thats all, like we get to see soho and others, closest i've found is GOES which isn't very good but at least that puts everyones silly arguments to rest as to why they would do it because they already do!
Just disregard the bandwidth calculations then. The rest is accurate regardless of whether it is video or still.
You could have course have an array of sensors - a 2x2 grid of 16mp sensors (64mp equivalent) would get you 1 square mile accuracy - assuming every pixel in the sensor was perfect (which never happens).
Other than that, what satellites are you thinking of that can find your black helicopters?
Really, what are you on about black helicopers!? Again where have i said i want such a high resolution to be able to see stuff on the earth, i simply want to see some decent quality images like the apollo ones of the earth in full view, nothing more nothing less.
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That satellite is going to have to be pretty bloody far out to get all of Earth in view.
Do you also want it to Orbit the earth?
Isn't there issues with the Van Allen belt in respect to putting satellites out that far? I was under the assumption that the Earths magnetic field wouldn't protect them from solar radiation past a certain point and they would have a much shorter lifespan.
Do you also want it to Orbit the earth?
Isn't there issues with the Van Allen belt in respect to putting satellites out that far? I was under the assumption that the Earths magnetic field wouldn't protect them from solar radiation past a certain point and they would have a much shorter lifespan.
But there's no scientific reason for them to have a satellites watching the whole Earth with cameras that just see the visible spectrum like you seem to want! It's not that complicated to understand really. Recording data from the rest of the spectrum will give much better information regards weather patterns etc. Any spy satellites will be calibrated to zoom in close so they can actually see something worthwhile.
Maybe one day they'll put a webcam on the ISS but I doubt that would be until it's finished since they don't exactly have power to waste at the moment.
The Van Allen Belt wouldn't be much of a factor in this. Although if you want the sat to have a geosynchronous orbit it will have to be at a specific distance with all the others. They're going to be positioning the James Webb Telescope about 1.5million km from Earth and they expect this to last over 10years so i'm pretty sure that getting far Enough back to get the whole view in won't be an issue. Not to mention that you could just use a very wide angle lens.
Like i said theres plenty of reasons for why and that they already do, im not saying it has to be purely visible spectrum, they usually have filters anyway so its not like extra equipment is really needed, the only question is why we don't see high quality colour images of the whole earth online or elsewhere.
Look here if you still doubt...
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/goesfull.html
Look here if you still doubt...
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/goesfull.html
According to that website it's a satellite monitoring reflected and re-emmitted electromagnetic radiation to be used to monitor weather patterns and ocean temperature. It's not capable of providing a view as our eyes would see it like you said you wanted. So this is just more evidence to prove my point thank you.
It also proves all mine so its all good!
So a satellite producing pictures that you've already said aren't good enough for you since they don't view the whole world+don't show it how it would look to the eye proves your view that they do have plenty of satellites producing the images you want they're just suspeciously kept hidden
How very strange.Anyway I assumed that this was the kinda view you were after, only something that was updated regularly:
http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=globewest2048tm7.jpg
According to NASA it took months to put that image together "Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet."
If they had a camera up there that could just take a quick snapshot I don't think they would have wasted their time putting this one together do you?
http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=globewest2048tm7.jpg
According to NASA it took months to put that image together "Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet."
If they had a camera up there that could just take a quick snapshot I don't think they would have wasted their time putting this one together do you?
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So a satellite producing pictures that you've already said aren't good enough for you since they don't view the whole world+don't show it how it would look to the eye proves your view that they do have plenty of satellites producing the images you want they're just suspeciously kept hidden
Your getting confused i think, people argue why would they put up any sats to view the whole earth and that it would costs to much so they don't, i have just proven them wrong, we have others sats up there as well, i have yet to see any full colour high resolution images, just because one does infrared doesn't mean they all do.
No, people have argued why would they put up satellites that monitor the whole earth using the visible spectrum. To which you have yet to give a reply. You might have something if you can come up with a convincing reason as to why they would need a satellite that could take pictures of the whole earth in the visible spectrum. So far you have failed to give any reasons.
No, people were pointing out to you that they wouldn't put up a satellite that would provide a view as to how the eye would see it since this would miss out huge chunks useful information. We all know that they have satellites monitoring very large areas of the Earth and I don't believe anyone would doubt this.
That argument is just for the sake of it, i don't need to write a report on the subject to convince you, sticking within the confines of my point its strange, anyway ill say monitoring earth changes like i said before, we know they do it already so theres really no argument, i just want to see some of the images, heck i would be happy with a higher resolution image in infrared
The idea that they would completely ignore the visible spectrum is just as absurd an idea, they use filters so its not like their cameras can't pickup visible as well as infrared.
Well you asked for something specific and stated it was suspicious that this exact thing wasn't provided so we tried to explain to you why it wasn't, now after all that you've decided that wasn't what you really wanted after all?
If you'd have just said 'I'd like to see more updated pictures of Earth' I could have just sent you this link http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/showall.php, the pictures tend to take a couple of days to be processed but they're usually pretty good.
If you'd have just said 'I'd like to see more updated pictures of Earth' I could have just sent you this link http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/showall.php, the pictures tend to take a couple of days to be processed but they're usually pretty good.