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Baikal Ice; April 28, 2021
Pripyat Meanders; October 7, 2021
Kronotsky Volcano; July 26, 2021
Oleshky Sands; August 2, 2021
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These medium-resolution PlanetScope images show the northern margin of Lake Chad at three times of year.
Check out this image of Seasons Transform Lake Chad, Bol, Chad
api.planet.com/gallery/v1/pos via
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I love how often there are polar / icy stories in the snapshots email newsletter. Like this SkySat shot from Dronning Maud Land (Jan 9 2023)
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. Just dropped some images that were on hold from North Korea's last pair of rocket launches on December 18th (the one with the "imaging satellite") and we just got one of those 'one in a million' shots of the 2 rockets on TELs....11 minutes before the first launch. 1/6
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🛰️ peering through the clouds after weeks of back-to-back (x4) atmospheric rivers in #California
Data by with great visualizations by
Watsonville • December 18, 2022 - January 17, 2023
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Wonderful map of Nepal’s Mustang Valley in this month’s using a basemap. As a bonus, here’s some very high resolution SkySat data showing the construction of a Chinese border post on the Tibetan end of the valley: planet.com/gallery/#!/pos
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Just announced! 🎉 Our co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Robbie was selected by National Space Council Chair Kamala Harris to serve on the Users Advisory Group! Proud to have him represent us alongside the US's skilled space workforce: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/
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Russia is building a vast network of trenches, traps and obstacles to slow Ukraine’s momentum. Will it work?
nytimes.com/interactive/20
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Managed to get a clear pic of the lava fountains on #MaunaLoaErupts right before the eruption’s intensity waned!
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I was curious, so I made and updated the famous NYT Yield Curve in (mine uses quarterly data). Here's the original by and from 2015: nytimes.com/interactive/20
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Satellites to measure 💩!? Find out how researchers from , , and are using PlanetScope data and computer vision to monitor livestock manure to protect waterways. #ScienceWednesday: go.planet.com/agmanure
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How did Russia repair most of the Crimean Bridge in less than 2 months? We’ve analysed satellite images from to show the process, from dismantling 4 damaged road spans with crane barges, and installing new sections covered with asphalt.
bbc.co.uk/news/explainer
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Fresh lava isn’t jet black, it’s silvery — there’s a thin layer of glass formed as the surface of the lava solidifies before the atoms have the chance to crystallize! Which you can see on these week-old flows at the summit of #MaunaLoa! Pics by
planet.com/gallery/#!/pos
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I’ve never really been a fan of the acronym “EO” which means Earth Observation. Maxar satellites can collect data of many things in our solar system, and now has the license to do so. We call this “Non Earth Imaging”. 👀 🛰️
Check out the
investor.maxar.com/investor-news/
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If you’ve ever seen Pixar’s “Up” you know what a tapui is — unique geography & a reservoir for rare & endangered species.
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New reporting from @washingtonpost on intense gold mining invasion of Yapacana National Park in Venezuela Amazon
Including on top of sacred tepuis (see striking 3D image below)
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/
Imagery @planet,@Maxar
@schmidtsam7,@AnaVHerrero,@janicekchen,@SOSOrinoco
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Last year I heard an idea from about how climate change is making Earth a liminal space—a threshold between two states often associated with uncertainty and unease. I’ve wanted to make a photo project around this idea since but never really knew how until now.
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At we have covered #Ukraine from multiple angles.
Proud of our team and work made possible by the , the #BlackMarble group, partners at , and colleagues across the agency.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/event/1
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You know how people like #books for #Christmas? And lots of people love #maps? How about books about maps! amazon.com/Kenneth-Field/
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Two pics of #MaunaLoa from yesterday (Dec. 3) — a PlanetScope overview showing the massive plume of vog (north up) & a detailed SkySat false-color look at the lava flows that have cut the road to the Observatory (rotated so north is right).
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Remarkable to see a line of unharvested wheat cutting across the front line in eastern Ukraine. Despite this, Ukraine had a surprisingly successful harvest — at least in the areas it controls. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150590/
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Is it a ridge? Or a valley?
To the plain eye, this sat image of Tassili n’Ajjer National Park could be either. But it’s actually a plateau of canyons in the Sahara Desert covering an area of 72,000sqkm. Fooled by this #reliefinversion? More in Snapshots: medium.com/@planetsnapsho
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A Planet SkySat took the night shift & we are “lavaing” the view! 😉
Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, is erupting for the first time since 1984. Check out the glow. 🌋
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Finally an application for AI I can get behind.
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Spoiler alert: it also knows how to convert NetCDF to GeoTIFF via @xarray_dev in Python
Not sure it is coming for our jobs yet. But I suspect someone will weaponize it to harvest reputation on StackOverflow any moment. twitter.com/MattCowgill/st…
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The 3D imagery is the cool part, but I’m excited to have played a small role by helping out with the satellite imagery that documented the state of the buildings before & after.
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This is the story we just won gold for at the #IIBAwards featuring the amazing dev work of Tom Brettell and designs by @alexpalmerabc
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The used imagery to document ship-to-ship transfers of stolen Ukrainian grain: wsj.com/articles/ships
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Also, if you could remind whoever was driving SK66HUH this morning that they shouldn't:
1) Undertake.
2) Think they have priority at junctions just because they're a bus.
3) Force cyclists into traffic.
Had hoped they'd know these basic things, but apparently not.
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