Pretty Pictures of Isabel - One Mine, One Space Station

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Pretty Pictures of Isabel - One Mine, One Space Station

#1 Postby wxman57 » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:08 pm

Here's mine, first:

http://www.impactweather.com/impactimages/isabel49.gif

Note the tiny eye beginning to re-form. Contrary to what Dr. Lyons is saying, I think it is a sign of impending intensification. May see a 10mb+ pressure drop in the next 24 hours.

Ok, now here's one I didn't take, as they won't let me on that space station:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... 47_lrg.jpg

For the main page with the super shot above, go here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... g_id=11705
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#2 Postby Rainband » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:11 pm

Nice Images wxman57..thanks :)
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#3 Postby bfez1 » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:18 pm

Great pics! Thanks!
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#4 Postby Aquawind » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:19 pm

Awesome Wicked Pics!!! I miss seeing those great multi layer graphics with the contours, surface obs, etc.. Man they really have improved the graphical tools for meterologists these days.. Thanks for sharing your time and tools. :D
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#5 Postby Deenac813 » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:43 pm

Great photos.. nature is something else!!
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#6 Postby PTrackerLA » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:45 pm

That picture of the eye is incredible! Isabel really is outta this world! j/k
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#7 Postby soonertwister » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:47 pm

wxman, that space station closeup of the eye is maybe the single most amazing hurricane picture I've ever seen. Many thanks for posting it!
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#8 Postby rlar798 » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:56 pm

I loved the pics on Earth Observatory! What a great site!
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Re: Pretty Pictures of Isabel - One Mine, One Space Station

#9 Postby Hurrilurker » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:57 pm

wxman57 wrote:Here's mine, first:

For the main page with the super shot above, go here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... g_id=11705
Wow, those space station pics are truly breathtaking, thanks for that link! It says the pics are taken with a digital camera with 180mm lens, now why can't they put one of those on one of the weather satellites? Some type of military "national security" garbage?
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#10 Postby GalvestonDuck » Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:04 pm

Wow, the second pic is almost scary....seeing how large she is. :o
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#11 Postby paradoxsixnine » Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:06 pm

Yeah, Ditto ALL of the above!
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Re: Pretty Pictures of Isabel - One Mine, One Space Station

#12 Postby wxman57 » Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:28 pm

Hurrilurker wrote:
wxman57 wrote:Here's mine, first:

For the main page with the super shot above, go here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura ... g_id=11705
Wow, those space station pics are truly breathtaking, thanks for that link! It says the pics are taken with a digital camera with 180mm lens, now why can't they put one of those on one of the weather satellites? Some type of military "national security" garbage?


Actually, we do have a high-res camera taking pictures daily. But such low Earth orbit satellites are not like the GOES satellites - they orbit about once each 90 minutes. So there's only a narrow window to snap images.Take a look at the latest shots of Isabel:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?short
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