Bobrayner From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2003, 2227 posts, RR: 7 Reply 11, posted (10 years 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 796 times:
It's not actually pictures from each satellite, surely?
As I understand it, they take a model of what the earth looks like in day/night (gained from a collage of photos, certainly not from most satellites), and then rotate it to get the perspective from a particular position; that of your chosen satellite. You could make up your own satellite and get the same result, just by specifying the orbital elements.
No weather, not really up-to-date, no "real" pictures from your favourite satellite. It still looks cute though
Bobrayner From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2003, 2227 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (10 years 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 769 times:
Oops... "no weather" is wrong.
There's also an option that effectively stitches together current weathersat images, and shows them from the perspective of your chosen satellite.
If you actually want weather satellite information, I'm sure there are better dedicated sites; this one is purely eyecandy, although that's no bad thing.
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