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Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Judging by the above post.....
We are already doomed
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Judging by the above post.....
We are already doomed
Did anyone else notice that the style of that last Anon post was just like Blossom's channellings? The spacing... the capitalized words...
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
There are two different satellites primarily used to form the images we see on satellite pictures. Contrary to what most of you think, weather satellites do not carry cameras, they carry instruments that record different types of radiation (infrared, mircowave and visible), which are beamed back to recieving stations on Earth, which digitise the information into images.
The camera is unique, not like a DSLR that exposes all the pixels at once. There's no shutter. The camera is designed more along the lines of a flatbed scanner hooked up to a very, very long telephoto lens. As the satellite floats along, the image of the earth in effect moves beneath it. The imaging bar, called a "push broom sensor," covers an area on the ground that's 16.8 km wide (nearly 10 miles). It focuses the image onto a CCD array that is 13 inches wide and contains nearly 30,000 pixels. And the resolution is astounding. Herring says each pixel covers an area on the ground about the size of home plate, which allows you to clearly see a car.
Originally posted by stander
That's news to me -- infrared light and microwave radiation?
You know, I believe that this description of the camera is far more likely:
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by stander
That's news to me -- infrared light and microwave radiation?
You know, I believe that this description of the camera is far more likely:
You are describing the ground scan camera... Oz was talking the Weather satellites
[edit on 16-10-2008 by zorgon]
Originally posted by stander
If the alleged UFOs appear only on pics taken by weather satellites, then the UFO buffs must be in a worse shape that I thought, but I've seen pics not taken by a weather satellite with an alleged UFOs on it. The OP for some reason excluded these. Maybe they were photoshoped or somethin'.