Google Earth Studio introduces new ways to animate detailed geographic features
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Earth Flight
I’m always struck by scale and how our perception of it changes with distance
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Typhoon Meranti
The eye of a super typhoon stares out into space from the surface our our planet
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Heliosynchronous Orbit
How do satellites remain in their orbital plane, even as the Earth rotates around the sun?
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Ocean Monitoring Satellite
As we work, play and sleep, in the skies far above our planet, eyes are watching our planet’s oceans
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Two Orbits One Earth
To monitor the entire planet’s surface, two types of satellite orbit are required.
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Storm of the Century
In November 2013, the strongest storm to ever make landfall, bore down on the Philippines.
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Polar Orbiting Satellite
These massive, complex machines see sights we humans can only dream of.
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