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Tibetan Plateau (Cloudless Atlas) 

via MapBox

ice fractures on the Beaufort Sea

via Earth Observatory

Chelyabinsk meteor from Meteosat 9 (outline og the Sea of Azov bottom left)

via Ogle Earth

with gifs demonstrating how to calculate the meteor’s path

Siberian wildfires at night (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, 8-3-2012)

via Earth Observatory

Stratocam - vote on Google Maps imagery

NASA image of Diwali (festival of lights), India 2011 

via Design You Trust

10 Years of Fires on Earth Seen from Space (from 2002 on)

via Wired Science

africa contributed 70% of the world’s blazes over the years

When a Plane Flies Through a Google Maps Satellite Image (Hyde Park, Chicago)

via The Atlantic

slantback:

UBS analyst Neil Currie had been looking at satellite data on Wal-Mart during each month of 2010, and he’d concluded that there was enough correlation between what he was seeing in the satellite pictures of Wal-Mart’s parking lots to the big-box chain’s quarterly earnings, that he was ready to incorporate that data into UBS’ report on Wal-Mart (via New Big Brother: Market-Moving Satellite Images - CNBC)