Rockot launch. Sentinel-3A goes to orbit on an ICBM

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Introducing_Sentinel-3

The Sentinels are a fleet of satellites designed to deliver the wealth of data and imagery that are central to the European Commission’s Copernicus programme.
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Carrying a suite of cutting-edge instruments, Sentinel-3 will measure systematically Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics. It will provide essential information in near-real time for ocean and weather forecasting.

Launch and maps and satellite
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/sentinel3a.html

A veteran Soviet ballistic missile converted into a space launcher lifted off with a European Earth-watching satellite for the world's largest environment-monitoring constellation Tuesday.

More on the launcher
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/sentinel3a.html

360 missiles, known in the West as SS-19, had been manufactured by the Khrunichev plant in Moscow, by the time their production stopped around 1991.

_Tombstone_

Prep vid and first pic are in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOzglI2ol8

Captured at 14:09 GMT on 29 February 2016 just two weeks after launch, the first image from the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite shows the transition from day to night over Svalbard, Norway.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/First_views_of_Earth_from_Sentinel-3A

_Tombstone_

Another pic, this one is flippin class.

Who wants to guess what all this red stuff is in the Nile?



Answers on a postcard to click here or

It's Vegetation

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLrtIkgNys

Capt'n Midnight

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

Who wants to guess what all this red stuff is in the Nile?

http://biblehub.com/exodus/7-20.htm

Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.

Also
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/04/garden/biblical-plagues-a-novel-theory.html?pagewanted=all

star gazer

Looking at Hurricane Florence
https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU/status/1039610060333350918

copernicus emergency

Copernicus Emergency Management Service

Copernicus Emergency Management Service (Copernicus EMS) provides information for emergency response in relation to different types of disasters, including meteorological hazards, geophysical hazards, deliberate and accidental man-made disasters and other humanitarian disasters as well as prevention, preparedness, response and recovery activities. The Copernicus EMS is composed of an on-demand mapping component including the provision of rapid maps for emergency response and risk & recovery maps for prevention and planning and of the early warning and monitoring component which includes systems for floods, droughts, and forest fires: