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Himawari-8 launched -- July 2015
 


[http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html <big>'''Japan’s New Earth Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes'''</big>]
[http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html <big>'''Japan’s New Earth Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes'''</big>]
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Looking down at Earth from 22,000 miles out — almost three times farther than the diameter of the planet itself — allows a view of the globe as a massive organic system, pulsing with continuous movement... The satellite can see features down to about a third of a mile in size — twice the resolution of similar weather satellites that watch other parts of the globe...  
Looking down at Earth from 22,000 miles out — almost three times farther than the diameter of the planet itself — allows a view of the globe as a massive organic system, pulsing with continuous movement... The satellite can see features down to about a third of a mile in size — twice the resolution of similar weather satellites that watch other parts of the globe...  


NOAA and NASA aim to launch a similar advanced weather satellite, [http://www.goes-r.gov/ '''GOES-R'''], in March 2016


http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/news/himawari89/20150707_himawari-8_operation_initiated.pdf ---- http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html
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* http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/news/himawari89/20150707_himawari-8_operation_initiated.pdf  
 
* http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html
 


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Japan’s New Earth Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes

Looking down at Earth from 22,000 miles out — almost three times farther than the diameter of the planet itself — allows a view of the globe as a massive organic system, pulsing with continuous movement... The satellite can see features down to about a third of a mile in size — twice the resolution of similar weather satellites that watch other parts of the globe...


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