Steve's Systems Biology blog » Uncategorized http://www.stevecheckley.co.uk/blog a mind forever voyaging through the strange seas of thought Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:57:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NASA satellite image strangeness http://www.stevecheckley.co.uk/blog/2011/04/13/satelite-image-contrails-strangeness/ http://www.stevecheckley.co.uk/blog/2011/04/13/satelite-image-contrails-strangeness/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:12:33 +0000 Steve http://www.stevecheckley.co.uk/blog/?p=521 I’ve set up a continuously updating satellite image of the earth as my gnome wallpaper. Every 3 hours it uses wget to ftp the latest image from world sunlight map over at die.net/earth. On Monday evening I noticed a strange artefact in the image. I haven’t noticed corruption in the images before but for a while there appeared to be a rather large contrail over north Australia:

If it’s a contrail it’s really big and really fast, not to mention covering several thousand miles. It’s most likely some glitch in the camera, but it doesn’t look like a digital error in the file.

I don’t know what it is. If anybody else does let me know.

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I will see where it goes…

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