It was released. The control bubble immediately took on the communication bubble’s view of the steadily approaching planet, its blue, patches of brown, and wide whiffs of white combining to deeply set it apart from the black that surrounded.
“All planets have a beauty,” the Very Ugly Man stated, “but this planet, like our own, showing the effects of an atmosphere that can sustain life, has a beauty that reaches deeper, touches, and moves. That is my first impression.”
There was no argument.
The bubble broke into the atmosphere and soon the whiffs of white surrounded it, breaking now and then to show other colors below: blue, brown, and then green.
FROM RUSSIA'S LATEST WEATHER SATELLITE -- THE ELECTRO-L:
Elektro-L is now orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit
36,000 kilometers above the equator, sending photographs of theentire planet every 30 minutes using a 2.56 to 16.36 Mbits per second connection with ground control. The images—and the video of the Northern Hemisphere—combines four light wavelengths, three visible and one infrared. The orange you are seeing here is the vegetation.
Beautiful view of our planet! I sure wish we had enough of a robotic space program so we could see the OTHER side as nicely. -Dave Doody
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