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Elektro-L

Stunning Timelapse of Planet Earth from Elektro-L

May 17, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter We’ve shared the images and a previous timelapse of Earth’s northern hemisphere, but now here’s a breath-taking timelapse of the entire blue (and green!) marble as seen from Russia’s Elektro-L weather-forecasting satellite, orbiting at a geostationary height of about 36,000 km [...]

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From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth

May 11, 2012

Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto a globe model — it’s the full disk of our planet in captured as a single, enormous 121 megapixel image, acquired by Russia’s Elektro-L weather-forecasting satellite. Remove this ad

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From the Earth and Moon (and Russia) With Love

March 30, 2011

This stunning picture of the Moon and Earth was taken by Russia’s new Elektro-L spacecraft, a weather-forecasting satellite that launched in January 2011. This is the first major spacecraft developed in post-Soviet Russia, and it is designed to give Russian meteorologists the ability to watch the entire disk of the planet, thanks to the satellite’s [...]

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