#satellite photo

[vox-anglosphere]

A tender good-night to my British friends & followers. Here's to a Happy New Year of peace & prosperity throughout the Anglosphere.

[jadeseadragon]

[jwood718]

Montana is still getting wildfire smoke from western Canada, but the old Northwest Territory seems fairly clear of it for now. The sweep of haze this afternoon looks like it's over the Eastern Seaboard, though, and even part of the Gulf of Mexico as it's pushed out over the Atlantic.

[stone-cold-groove]

NASA’s Echo 1 communications satellite - 1960.

[jadeseadragon]

So close!

Earth and Moon from MESSENGER

Credits: NASA, JHU APL, CIW

[oswaldpettyeyeart]

villain medley.

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[releasings]

Images showing the eye of Major Hurricane Beryl Category 4 captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite yesterday. If you look closely you can see whitecaps on the ocean!

[zman80]

Satellite Lightning

[thistransient]

[sumbluespruce]

Starlink

9/2/24

[wikipediapictures]

Torres de Satélite

“Torres de Satélite, sculptures by Mathías Goeritz, Luis Barragán and Jesús "Chucho" Reyes Ferreira. Composed with three images.” - via Wikipedia Commons.

[hldailyupdate]

Columbia Records via Twitter! (30 April 2023)

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[jwood718]

Aaaaaand: the wildfire smokey haze is back! Looks like the smoke from the western wildfires is being funneled down toward the southeast, sending the AQI back into cautionary territory:

Eastern Montana has the worst smoke in the U.S. right now.

The haze over the middle countryside was all too evident as well:

Humidity might add some haziness to the scene, but it's mostly smoke. For further comparison:

Just north of Hoopeston, IL on July 16 (above) and when the air was clearer (below) on June 12:

Satellite view: National Weather Service

Air Quality monitor: AirNow.gov

Photos: Rachel Bradshaw and Jake Wood, 2023.

[blueiscoool]

Mysterious Flash Over Kyiv, Ukraine

A mysterious flash which lit up skies over Ukraine's capital on Wednesday night generated much speculation.

Officials in Kyiv initially suspected it was a Nasa satellite falling to Earth but the US space agency said it was still in orbit.

Ukrainian space officials said later the flash had probably come from a meteor entering the atmosphere.

The air force was confident it was not a Russian air attack - an event all too familiar since the invasion last year.

The bright glow was observed in the sky over the capital around 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT).

An air raid alert was activated but "air defence was not in operation", the head of Kyiv's military administration, Serhiy Popko.

[deermouth]

From the Historic St. Marks Lighthouse Facebook page -- "Aerial view of 1928 shipwreck offshore from the lighthouse and view from shore at low tide."