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11 December 2009
Picture of Astronauts On ISS Taken From The Ground!
I love looking at pics from Space of human objects on the ground. You can sometimes even see the outline of streets around Chicago after a snowfall on weather satellite images. I still recall seeing jet contrails on the GOES imagery for the first time in 1978. The GOES imagery resolution has continued to improve and the next generation of weather satellites later in this decade will make it possible …
Editorial in 56 Newspapers from 45 Countries
What we do about climate change is a political question. The reality of the problem is a scientific one. With that in mind, I reprint without comment, an editorial published in 45 countries this week. It’s free to copy. The image above is from the Guardian in London. We somehow have to figure out how to quit burning fossil fuels. My ideas on HOW we do that are probably no …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.