The Earth's rotation in real time

[The Chief]

Satellite view of Earth in "real" time. Click on whatever region of the globe that you want, and leave that window open. Then check in from time to time (refresh) to see the movement.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?imgsize=1024&opt=-l&lat=350.45

 

[Preferred User]

Satellite view of Earth in "real" time. Click on whatever region of the globe that you want, and leave that window open. Then check in from time to time (refresh) to see the movement.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?imgsize=1024&opt=-l&lat=350.45

Very cool Chief.

 

[Cman]

Yeah its cool. I sent the link to my mother and it spooked her LOL

 

[Preferred User]

So how do they do it? It has to be a composite of satilite pics taken when there were no clouds in each segment of the pic. There is some reason there is no weather showing....

 

[mindido]

Good job Chief, very interesting. Thanks.

 

[Bob_Box]

is not real time because we have snow all over the ground and it looks green

 

[Cman]

i think what they mean by real time is that the movement of the light corresponds to what time of day it is in your part of the world, not necessarily that its a live picture of now.

 

[Gibson]

I can see my house.

Hahaha!

Ha!


*thump*
*thump*


Is this thing on?

 

[Cman]

I can see my house.

Hahaha!

Ha!


*thump*
*thump*


Is this thing on?

can you see mine? since its probably fairly close lol

actually i live in a huge apt building thats clearly visible. i found it on google maps one time.

 

[The Young One]

actually i live in a huge apt building thats clearly visible. i found it on google maps one time.

Is it shaped like a maple leaf?

 

[The Chief]

a few more Earth related thingies

Earth desktop

Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.

http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.asp

and some guy has fooled around with Google Maps to make this Nightime site,

http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~pesti/night/

 

[Dmoney]

Wow, nice!!

 

[mindido]

Here's a site along the same line but a bit more useful. If you need to have your clocks set precisely (within a tenth of a second or so) make sure you bookmark this. I use it about once a month.

http://nist.time.gov/

Its probably only good in the western hemisphere as you have to know which time zone your in. There are probably other sites for different areas of the world.