You will need
- - access to the Internet.
Instruction
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Go to the website meteosputnik.ru. This project will publish images from low-orbit and geostationary meteorological satellites. Also, it is accepting images taken in real-time. Photos are published after the end of data reception. In this resource you have the ability to see imagery in formats APT or HRPT. They differ in frequency range and resolution of the obtained images.
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To see pictures of the Earth from satellites in HRPT format, click the appropriate link, located in the Central part of the home page. You will see the page of pictures. Each of them will have the receipt date, the exact time of the shooting (Moscow time) and the name of the photographed places.
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You can also view pictures of the Earth format APT. With this end click on another link near the above. In addition, the resource provides the opportunity to see pictures from the satellite METEOSAT 7.
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In the section "Interesting photo" you can find photos of various events taking place on Earth at any given time (picture of the solar wind, a strong magnetic storm, volcanic eruption, etc.).
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The practical benefit of such projects is very large. The pictures transmitted from the satellite in real-time to help implement the operational sensing, remote monitoring of the atmosphere allow us to predict the weather and tracking different weather phenomena.
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Polar-orbiting NOAA satellites are at an altitude of approximately 800 km above the earth. The orbit trajectory of the aircraft passes through both poles. With each round slightly offset relative to the previous one, it occurs after the offset of the illuminated part of the surface of the Earth. As a result, the more satellites are located above the illuminated surface. So during the day have the option of taking up to ten photographs from a satellite at night – two to three photos.