Mysterious Island, part deux

Not to be outdone by Astrium’s pictures mentioned in my aside a few days ago, RapidEye’s in the game, too. Some of their five imagery satellites have been very busy. They have released a few pictures of their own of the island that mysteriously rose from the water off of Pakistan’s coast. The island itself doesn’t […]

If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

Pleiades, of course–at least according to this news release from Astrium. An island appeared off of Pakistan’s coast a few days ago right after an earthquake, according to this ABC posting. There were all sorts of strange things associated with it, which are detailed in the article. Not quite strange in a Jules Verne kind […]

Finding the truth of a country’s economic state, from space

Surely, most people have seen this comparison of pictures. The comparison showing the differences in lights in China and North Korea from an image taken in 1992 versus an image taken in 2010. China changed a lot and of course North Korea not at all. Well, some people are attempting to sift more truth of […]