Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu sci.astro:35316 sci.space:61484 sci.geo.meteorology:5310 sci.geo.geology:4448 Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.aero.org!shag From: shag@aero.org (Rob Unverzagt) Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space,sci.geo.meteorology,sci.geo.geology Subject: Re: moon image in weather sat image Date: 30 Apr 1993 19:51:19 GMT Organization: Organization? You must be kidding. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1rrvvnINNofr@news.aero.org> References: <1993Apr30.173625.10139@unocal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aerospace.aero.org In article <1993Apr30.173625.10139@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes: > In article turner@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (George Wm Turner) writes: > > > >an image of the moon has been caught in a weather satellite images of the earth. > >it appears in both the 0430-1500UT ir and visual images of the earth. > >the GIF images can be down loaded from vmd.cso.uiuc.edu and are named > >CI043015.GIF and CV043015.GIF for the IR and visual images respectively. > > > >pretty cool pictures; in the ir it's saturated but in the visual image > >details on the moon are viewable. > > Near midsummer, you can see the relfection of the Sun in the ocean. > Also during solar eclise you can see the shadow of the sun move > across the clouds. Speaking of which, a paper was out a few years ago about a weather sat imaging a lunar eclipse -- are those images uploaded anywhere? I could dig out the reference if there's interest. Shag -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob Unverzagt | shag@aerospace.aero.org | Tuesday is soylent green day. unverzagt@courier2.aero.org |