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more about #satellites BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: Looks like the Valdez struck again more » Pope John Peeps II: Its mix of sand and marsh puts any artist to shame. hooray! Let's all off-handedly denigrate art because we don't know the first thing about it! Mer... more » moonphrogg: I was expecting to find out that first shot was a close up of Jupiter. . . more » ulardigental: It's already been said here, but to confirm, it's a ham operator participating in a rover operation, either for contesting or just for the hell of it.... more » iComment: Clearly AT&T trying to extend their network and reduce dropped calls. Hello? Hello? more » n3vzl: I second, third, or whatever that this is clearly a ham radio operator setup for VHF and up rover operations. Just search Google Images for "ham radio... more » se_oneal: It's someone setup to do "Rover" in the last VHF amateur radio contest. Amateurs drive around the country side and work others from each grid square,... more » philselmer: I don't know what any of that on the roof is, but a bed cap on a Baja is fail. more » Donathius: I asked my dad who's a ham operator and builds his own antennas and here's his response: "Yeah, easy answer. He's a ham and he has his car set up for... more » JC Whitless: When nerds are given an unlimited budget and asked to make a porn ala Bangbus, this is what you would get. more » Alfisted: You have to work long and hard to make a Baja dorkier than it is from the Subaru factory. more » Michai: Its a mobile Doppler vehicle. A Storm chaser, most likely an amateur. more » Jacubious: It's the Family vehicle for the next "Honey I Shrunk the Kids," installment. more » trs: It's for the new technology, Google Ghost View, where you can overlay the paranormal dimension on top of street view. All of the ghosts faces will be ... more » RT100: Well it's definitely not female repellant, the subaru by itself does that enough (OOOOOH!) more » dingus: Those antennas are all directional and too high frequency to be useful to a ham-on-wheels. The thing at the base of the mast might be an electric rot... more » rjp: This is my rebuttal: The wide variety of antennae leads me to believe that this is probably used for tracking down errant radio interference. I worked at a radio observato... more » martini1992: I didn't think NASA's buget was cut that much. more » stretta: That is an iPhone user trying to get a signal from AT&T. more » jdale: I don't see cameras, so Streetview seems out. Wardriving? Just wants TV everywhere? Searching for paranormal activity? Mapping RF pollution over large... more » -
#imagecache
Satellite Imagery Captures Earth as Painting
What you're looking at is a satellite image of the Dasht-e Kavir. Its mix of sand and marsh puts any artist to shame. And this shot is just one of 60 equally remarkable photos from a roundup from Webdesigner Depot. More » -
#imagecache
Google StreetView's Homegrown Competition?
Sometimes Jesus asks you people "What Is This?" about a cool image, and then cleverly reveals the answer after the lead. It's a tease, really. However, in this case, I really don't know what the hell is going on here. More » -
#landscapes
We're Not So Different, Earth and Mars
Here are two galleries for you, both of photos taken from space. One is of islands here on Earth, the other of landscapes on Mars. It's amazing, the similarities between the two places when you look from a certain distance. More » -
#space
NASA Moon Bombing Mission May Have Worked Out After All
So that anticlimactic moon bombing NASA attempted the other day may have kicked up a little dust, instead of absolutely nothing as once feared. More » -
#spysatellites
Penguin Poo, Spotted by Satellite, Reveals Location of Secret Penguin Base
Even though non-military satellites don't have powerful enough resolution to zoom in on a particular penguin—or any critter—certain clues can help locate them in the frozen antarctic. More » -
#gps
Air Force Twitters on GPS Outage Reports: Calm Down, Civilians
When the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report saying that worldwide GPS performance is likely to degrade in the next few years, lot of people, public and private, kinda flipped. Cue the inevitable about-face, right about...now. More » -
#space
24 Hour Time Lapse of Earth Taken From a Satellite Shows Terrestrial Eclipse
This is a timelapse video of Earth over the course of 24 hours taken by the EchoStar 11 Satellite. I'm such a sucker for this stuff. [YouTube via Dark Roasted Blend] -
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#goodvsevil
Space-Based Solar Panels May Be Used for Energy-Saving Good or Catastrophic Evil
A Californian power company is looking at launching giant, reflective solar panels into space to beam clean energy back to us on Earth. But the tech was originally designed for Bond-villain-like weather control. More » -
#hackers
Hackers Going Full Brazilian on U.S. Satellites
The Brazilian Federal Police are trying to crackdown on the hijacking of U.S. military satellites—an illegal act that is so well entrenched that it has become something of a "national phenomenon." More » -
#spacejunk
Too Much Space Debris? Try a Weak Laser or a Strong Water Cannon
There are 18,000 pieces of tracked space debris in orbit—and millions more smaller bits—all potentially fatal. To nudge them towards the atmosphere to burn up, one scientist proposes lasers, another proposes water. More » -
#searchingforet
Kepler Launch A Success, Search For E.T. Is Underway
If you really love rocket launches and new satellites blasting into orbit, here's some free porn. It's the Kepler launch we told you about Thursday. Burns "2,200lbs of propellant per second." Hot! [Tom's Astronomy Blog] -
#space
Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches
Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they'll be the space junk gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future space launches. More » -
#space
British Government to Launch Satellites Into Orbit on the Back of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo
Looks like the WhiteKnightTwo won't be all play after all, as the British government wants to use Virgin Galactic's spacecraft to send some state satellites into low orbit. More » -
#hubble
Satellite Collision Could Doom the Hubble Telescope
It appears that the Hubble might end up as collateral damage from the recent collision between an Iridium and Russian satellite. Without another service mission, the Hubble may meet its end within a year or two. More » -
#space
First Greenhouse Gas-Monitoring Satellites Going Into Orbit, Secrets of Global Warming Imminent?
Both the Japanese and American Space agencies, JAXA and NASA, are about to launch satellites into orbit which measure Earth's carbon dioxide and methane levels, hoping to glean insight into global warming's effects. More » -
#breaking
It Finally Happened: Two Satellites Crash In Space
The AP is reporting that two satellites just crashed 500 miles above Siberia in the first-ever in-orbit collision of two spacecrafts. More » -
#space
Iran Puts Its First Satellite Into Orbit
On the 30th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, Mahmoud and friends have put their first functional satellite into orbit, carried there from a domestically-made Safir 2 rocket. More » -
#satellites
Pentagon Mitex Satellites Are the First to Actively Spy... On Other Satellites!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If we're talking spy satellites, the answer this week became "U.S. satellites," two of which completed a first-of-its kind maneuver that had wide-ranging ramifications for all satellites currently in orbit. Update. More » -
#satellitetv
AT&T Cruisecast: 20 Satellite TV Channels For the Car
Come this spring, parents will have another tool at their disposal when it comes to shutting up kids in the backseat. Called Cruisecast, it's AT&T's foray into car-based satellite TV, and it's expensive. More »
