This story was updated on May 8 to include details on the student participation in the HD Earth Viewing experiment.įollow Mike Wall on Twitter and Google+. UrtheCast also aims to sell its imagery to a variety of customers, including government agencies interested in tracking resource use and private companies that want to keep tabs on their operations (and perhaps the operations of their competitors). UrtheCast released the first images from Theia last month and plans to begin streaming near-realtime views of Earth from orbit soon, bringing lots of viewers to their website. These two cameras, which together cost $17 million, were installed by spacewalking cosmonauts in January. (Real-time location tracking and predictions based on latitude and altitude) You can see or track live the position of the ISS, interactive on. Everything that is visualized like earth, sun and moon is in original scale and at the exact position in space at this time in HD. Spot Human and Natural Wonders Use the ISS orbital trail on the Geochron to identify landmarks as they pass by. Especially made to enjoy the view from the International Space Station in real-time. One of them, known as Theia, takes pictures with a resolution of 16.5 feet (5 meters), while the other camera records video that can resolve details as small as 3 feet (1 m) across. A live digital stream from the ISS is delivered to the maps of your Geochron, about 30 seconds after it hits the lens of the Earth view camera on the International Space Station. The Vancouver-based company UrtheCast (pronounced 'Earthcast') has two HD cameras on the orbiting lab. HDEV isn't the only Earth-imaging project aboard on the International Space Station.

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