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Amazing Radar Image from Space Highlights Costa Concordia Catastrophe

January 20, 2012

An amazing new radar image from space (above and below) shows the wreckage of the deadly Costa Concordia catastrophe just hours after the luxury cruise liner struck gigantic rocks jutting up from the shoreline of the Island of Giglio [Isola del Giglio] off the coast of Tuscany, Italy on Friday the 13th of January 2012, [...]

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Deadly Costa Concordia Shipwreck Captured in Stunning Image from Space

January 19, 2012

The deadly Costa Concordia shipwreck has been captured in a stunning high resolution image from space that vividly shows the magnitude of the awful disaster with the huge luxury cruise ship precariously tipped on its side just off of the Tuscan coastline of the Italian Island of Giglio [Isola del Giglio]. See the full image [...]

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Mount Merapi Still Blowing off Steam

November 11, 2010

For about three weeks, Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has been belching out lava, as well as ash and gas, clouding the atmosphere above. This satellite image, taken by NASA’s MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, shows the volcano now settling down and is the most cloud-free satellite view of the volcano that we’ve been able to [...]

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High Res Satellite Images

September 7, 2010

Here are some high res satellite images. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This photo of a total solar eclipse was taken from the International Space Station on March 29, 2006. The photo was [...]

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Hurricane Satellite Images

September 7, 2010

Here are some cool hurricane satellite images. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This is a nice image of Hurricane Earl from space as seen by the Expedition 24 astronauts onboard the International Space [...]

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Satellite Images: Cities

April 20, 2010

Here are some satellite images of cities. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This image of Sydney, Australia was taken during the STS-79 mission on September 18, 1996. Sydney is the largest city in [...]

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Ikonos

February 22, 2010

Ikonos is a commercial Earth observation satellite owned by GeoEye Inc. It is the first commercial satellite capable of collecting panchromatic (black and white) images with 82-centimeter resolution as well as multispectral imagery with 4-meter resolution. GeoEye is an image provider company that serves companies that require satellite map images such as Microsoft, Yahoo! and [...]

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Satellite Image of Your Home

January 4, 2010

Were you wondering how you can get a satellite image of your home? No problem. Thanks to satellite technology and the Internet, there are many places you can go to get cool satellite pictures. Probably the best place to go is Google Maps. This is a free browser-based service that lets you browse around a [...]

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Live Satellite Images

October 2, 2009

There are many tools that let you see satellite images of the Earth, but have you wondered if there are any tools out there that let you see live satellite images? Unfortunately, there are no publicly available services that let you see what a satellite is seeing right now. All of the services that let [...]

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