Hello everyone!
I just run into russian Electro-L weather satellite's images, which takes or took every 30 minutes an image of the full half-disk of the earth and the images are downloadable online. I checked the RGB images in a sequence and found that it shows that antarctica is in light during the "winter" months (2013 november-2014 february). How does that fit to Flat Earth Theory?
Also, are these images also corrupt or something? I tried to stretch these "fish-eye" images to panoramic, but failed. Also the sun's reflection is interesting.
You can find the images here:
ftp://electro@ftp.ntsomz.ru/ the password is as the user name.
Here are some images.
I find it very interesting, now checking the infrared images which shows the surface in dark too.
Since you posted on both sites, I guess I'll reply on both. More activity over here anyway.
Here is are brighter versions of your visible light ones (I can't make out the infra-red one):
Russian Satellite Photo (before dawn in centre) - December 2015 | | Russian Satellite Photo (around midday) - December 2015 |
I can't work out why you want to "stretch these "fish-eye" images to panoramic". This is no "fish-eye" photograph - it is taken from a satellite 35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi) above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the Earth's rotation - the earth really is a globe!
The sun's reflection looks about as one would expect from a fairly smooth ocean, off the north-west coast of Australia in the first and from the sun almost behind the satellite in the second.
There is also a Japanese site. It is quite easy to uses and does not need a password. You can access the data on
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/. Here a couple of examples:
Himawari-8, Full disk on May 5, 2016 at 00:00 UTC | | Himawari-8, July 27, 2016 at 00:30 UTC, infra-red full disk |
The infra-red one, on the right, was taken less that 30 minutes ago. It shows bot land and ocean dark and clouds in white. The land boundaries are added afterwards. The infra-red images canalso be displayed in "false colour" with land in green and water in blue.
The normal downloads from this site are 800x800 pixels, but the left one was a very high definition 11,000x11,000 pixels (149 MB file), though reduced to 1,024x1,024 pixelsfor posting here.