Showing posts with label planet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planet. Show all posts

Friday, July 27, 2012

Come home satellite into space

  In addition to the satellites created by the various space agencies in different countries, also groups of academics and universities have made ​​their own models and many of these are now in orbit around our planet, but here we have a satellite manufacturing home that has been created by the South Korean Song-Ho Jun in their own home . This man of 34 years spent about $ 500 to create OPENSAT, a small satellite that weighs 1 kilogram...

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Forty years of satellite images of our planet

We are celebrating today the 40th anniversary of the Landsat satellite program . This program is the acquisition of satellite images of Earth with the longest continuous operation. Over the years, Landsat has collected petabytes of images, offering a historical perspective of change that our planet has undergone. This information can help researchers and independent nations, make informed decisions about their economic and environmental policies....