This recently created community is dedicated to showing the earth from above. Let’s see if we can get it kickstarted so we can all enjoy beautifull images!

description: A place to share pictures taken from above, that reveal interesting views, fascinating places or different angles to places.

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NASA TV does it fairly regularly, but I always thought there should be a stream that shows live satellite views of the Earth 24/7. Just switch between satellites when one crosses over to the night side.

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In one of the last offices I worked in the military before I retired, there was a TV in the corner of the room, but the TV tuner attached to it only had one channel - NASA TV. I spent about a year by myself in that office, watching satellite views of the earth. It was very peaceful.

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They at least have an ISS live stream going most of the time, but it’s pretty boring at night or when they lose coverage

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Oh nice, I didn’t know it was constant now. It used to just be on between shows. Still, yeah, they need something to cover the day side all the time.

Edit: That said, it appears to be down at the moment.

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Yesssssssss this stream has been on for a long time Love it 😎 🤓

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Zoom.earth is pretty neat as well.

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I wanted to make a joke about seeing the Earth from above as opposed to below like from underground but I started thinking about molemen and it got lame. Then I thought about making it below if you were in the southern hemisphere, then that fell apart and I just wrote this. It was an interesting minute. But I dig orbital photos and stuff so this rocks.

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Listening to you is like listening to me.

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10 points

Just giving myself a link to click
!topview@lemmy.world

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Did my link not work? Just trying to make sure I did not screw up.

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Yeah, sorry, your link would have been fine for most people 'cos they’ll be accessing Lemmy through an app that auto-magically resolves absolute links into ones relative to their instance. It’s just because I’m not using Lemmy (I’ve seen the MBin guy do the same thing before)

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Your link is fine.

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The link you posted is a website link. Hence the app I use for lemmy (Connect) opens it in an external browser. From there, I can’t subscribe, since I’m only logged in, in the app.

The link format that andrew posted is a lemmy link. It is instance independant, meaning that you can view it through any lemmy server, or even via other federated platforms. Connect opens this link within the app.

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I’m very good in having a constant posting schedule, right?

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Thanks for the spotlight!

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Thank you for making, and posting a lot to your community!

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Topview? More like Eyewitness.

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