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Snow in the Atacama Desert
A convincing argument can be made that the Atacama Desert in Chile and Argentina is the driest place on Earth. The average rainfall is one millimetre per year and some weather monitoring stations have never detected rain. This week eighty … Continue reading
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Snow-covered UK seen from space
In January I posted an image from NASA’s MODIS satellite showing the UK covered in snow. I’m doing the same for the recent snow; these images were taken today (1st December) between 1110 and 1430. The problem with this image is … Continue reading
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Rods from God
The problem with bombs is getting them to their target. Dropping them from the air has always been the standard approach (Austrians used air-dropped bombs during the siege of Vienna in 1849), but this is beset by problems. Even stealth … Continue reading
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Satellite view of snow-covered UK from space
This is what the UK looks like at the moment, covered in snow. Clicking on the image will load a high resolution (250m per pixel) version (3400×4400 px, 3.02MB). The imagery comes from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite’s Rapid … Continue reading
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Long Duration Experiment
NASA’s Long Duration Exposure Facility was a bus-sized satellite that orbited Earth for more than five and a half years, completing more than 32 000 complete orbits. It was covered in 86 panels, each of which was a different experiment designed … Continue reading
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Space Junk
The space around Earth is full of junk, as you can see in the pictures below from the European Space Agency. Click to enlarge. It’s so full of junk that recently a US Iridium satellite and a Russian Strela satellite collided, … Continue reading
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