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Old 11th August 2010 | 13:54
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brooksjg
 
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Beautiful imagery - but still fails to address the key problem: timeliness. I assume at least some of the satellites in use were in polar orbits, so there's a variable delay before the patch of atmosphere you want gets imaged. Geostationary sats are (maybe...) too far out to deliver the detail needed and anyway don't carry the relevant sensors. (I may be entirely wrong on this.)
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