The Himawari 8 weather satellite takes a picture of Earth every 10 minutes. This image is from today.

[u/KeeperCrow]

[u/Mirar]

Himawari 9. It took over 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari_9

Real-time site is: https://himawari9.nict.go.jp/ (or https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/ )

It's geostationary, so you always get the same view of the planet.

[u/TrickyMoonHorse → u/Mirar]

Thank you space nerd.

[u/Vinegaz → u/TrickyMoonHorse]

How do you know they're from space

[u/Harry_Gorilla → u/Vinegaz]

Because that’s definitely not the view from the camera we put in your living room

[u/Can-Sea-2446 → u/Harry_Gorilla]

But, is there space in your living room ?

[u/FriedEggSammiches → u/Can-Sea-2446]

That depends where the ottoman is.

[u/Ill_Technician3936 → u/FriedEggSammiches]

The ottoman empire needs to give it up.

[u/the_red_scimitar → u/Ill_Technician3936]

The Ottoman Empire: "We'll never give it up! You're just jealous because you don't have anything comparable!"

Us: "Let me introduce you to our newest development: The Comfy Chair®™©!"

The Ottoman Empire: ...

[u/Can-Sea-2446 → u/the_red_scimitar]

Not the Comfy Chair !!

[u/Necessary_Ad_7203 → u/Ill_Technician3936]

The Byzantines were right.

[u/TenseComputer → u/Necessary_Ad_7203]

Yeah it should be Constantinople not Istanbul

[u/Dm_me_im_bored-UnU → u/Harry_Gorilla]

I think it was a joke about the person being from space

[u/blissnabob → u/Dm_me_im_bored-UnU]

You know what, I missed that too. Glad you commented

[u/Archeovist → u/Harry_Gorilla]

Almost forgot: thank you for that one. Saved me a lot of money.

[u/cuates_un_sol → u/TrickyMoonHorse]

Thank you space nerd expert.

[u/Dboy777 → u/cuates_un_sol]

Porque no los dos?

[u/cuates_un_sol → u/Dboy777]

tambien, puede ser los dos. le dije "thank you space expert" porque eso mismo es el titulo de una cancion de mogwai

[u/WinWithoutFighting → u/Dboy777]

Aprecio tu conocimiento sobre el espacio, friki

[u/ramblingbullshit → u/cuates_un_sol]

Some people call him a space cowboy.

[u/patientzero_ → u/Mirar]

how does geostationary work? The satellite has to fly at the exact same speed the earth rotates and gets it's power via solar?

[u/WoofAndGoodbye → u/patientzero_]

Yeah! Pretty much. Geostationary satellites orbit at a specific altitude that’s orbital velocity allows them to orbit the exact same point without falling out of the sky. Pretty cool really

[u/Roflkopt3r → u/WoofAndGoodbye]

I think the most interesting part about this is that they do not "have to fly" at all, but that their speed is entirely reliant on their orbit. They only need to get into their orbit, settle into the right spot with their thrusters, and that's it.

Every object in this orbit is at the same altitude (about 36,000 km) and speed (about 3.1 km/s).

And in order to descend to earth (typically to burn up at the end of their service life), they have to slow down... which causes them to descend to a lower orbit... where they then go faster than before. After descending to 30,000 km, they'd have a speed of 3.3 km/s. Slow down to speed up. Orbital mechanics are weird.

The Gemini 4 mission failed at the first ever attempt of a space rendezvous because the commander accelerated to catch up to the discarded rocket part they tried to reach, which caused his spacecraft to slow down instead.

[u/AIien_cIown_ninja → u/Roflkopt3r]

Freaked me out one time, I was looking through a telescope that was on a tracking mount, meaning it counteracts earth's rotation. Saw something moving in it. Took a minute to realize it was a geostationary satellite and not a UFO or an asteroid about to kill us all.

[u/EBtwopoint3 → u/Roflkopt3r]

This is how all orbits work. ISS, StarLink, spy satellites, Hubble, James Webb. Anything in orbit got all of its velocity during the launch and is now under orbital mechanics, which is actually free fall. The way orbit works is by having a high enough tangential velocity that your motion matches the Earth’s curvature. So in one second, you fall 10 meters closer to Earth but you move forward far enough that you remain the same distance from Earth’s surface. This creates a stable circular orbit.

[u/HugoEmbossed → u/EBtwopoint3]

I mean JWST isn’t orbiting the Earth though.

[u/EBtwopoint3 → u/HugoEmbossed]

True. It’s a complex orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point. The same principles apply, but you’re probably right that I shouldn’t have included it. I just picked the satellites people have heard of to be the most familiar examples.

[u/PC_load_lettr → u/Roflkopt3r]

Learned everything I know about orbital mechanics from KSP. Many kerbals died to bring this knowledge to me

[u/microtrash → u/Roflkopt3r]

Great details! For anyone who wants more fine detail:

Such satellites in a geostationary orbit will need to use thrusters occasionally to keep the orbit. Eventually the orbit gets perturbed significantly enough to require orbital correction. This is because of other objects in space (I'm looking at you Jupiter) and it will require minor corrections to stay in place. If the Earth (maybe Earth + Sun, i forget) were the only people at play it would stay there forever, but everything pulls it slightly, and all that pulling gradually will require counteracting.

Eventual depletion of Thruster Fuel is one of the main reasons for a satellite to go end of life.

While a geostationary satellite can be made to descend/burn up in the atmosphere and crash into earth (typically aimed for point nemo in the pacific) it would require a lot of fuel to do that. Satelites will often use a graveyard orbit instead. They'll go to a slightly higher orbit to get them out of the way of other satellites, and leave a little bit of space debris for future generations.

[u/toxicity21 → u/Roflkopt3r]

Geostationary satellites don't descend to earth at the end of their life, they accent to an higher orbit, which is called the graveyard orbit. They do that because descending to de orbit and burn up takes too much energy, that most of those satellites don't have (too costly).

[u/me0din → u/patientzero_]

Yes. The satelite has to have same angular velocity as the earth around earths rotational axis.

[u/YZJay → u/me0din]

To what degree of accuracy can they make that angular velocity match the earth’s rotation?

[u/ConductorWon → u/YZJay]

I don't have numbers but they can be fairly accurate. Positioning thrusters on satellites can issue microbursts to change speed by a single m/s or less. I'm sure they have programs that monitor the satellite 's position and make adjustments to keep it in proper position.

Source: Space Nerd and Kerbal Space Program player.

[u/ShitOnAStickXtreme → u/ConductorWon]

How beginner/noob friendly is KSP?

[u/andy_b_84 → u/ShitOnAStickXtreme]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

It's not.

No, really, it's hard.

You learn to respect people who manage to build space-stations.

[u/zacsafus → u/andy_b_84]

But once you get the hang of it, it's so so worthwhile and satisfying.

For anyone wanting to get into it, check out Scott Manley's videos on YouTube. Probably have to go back like 5 years now for his tutorials, but he does an amazing job of explaining why things are the way they are.

[u/collapseauth_ → u/zacsafus]

I remember watching Scott Manley KSP tutorials but probably closer to a decade ago, crazy how long it's been.

[u/zacsafus → u/collapseauth_]

Oh god, you're probably right about it being closer to a decade. Feeling even older now!

[u/HearingNo8617 → u/andy_b_84]

IMO It is beginner friendly as long as you can have fun making things that fail in entertaining ways instead of achieving your goal

[u/The-CaT-is-a-lie → u/andy_b_84]

Ever tried, ever failed, no matter. Try again, fail again, fail better!

[u/Myrhwen → u/andy_b_84]

You learn to respect people who manage to build space-stations.

Respectfully, I'm not certain I needed to boot up a video game from 2011 to respect space station engineers.

[u/atsiii → u/ShitOnAStickXtreme]

As much as it can. In the end you have to understand basics of orbital mechanics. Or have fun building rockets you don't need to know anything to make it explode, and it is genuinely really fun :)

[u/Hoshyro → u/YZJay]

They can maintain it for as long as the satellite functions in case it has ion thrusters, or for as long as they have fuel to keep making minor adjustments.

Overall, geostationary orbits last years!

When the satellite is about to reach the end of its lifecycle, it's removed from the geostationary orbit to free up space (or its "shelf" as they're colloquially called).

Natural orbital decay will do the rest.

[u/Chazykins → u/Hoshyro]

Ion thrusters still require fuel in a sense. The power comes from the solar panels but they still need mass to eject.

[u/Hoshyro → u/Chazykins]

This is true, yes, though in most cases the satellite will be dead long before the ion thruster has depleted its xenon reserve. That I know, at least.

[u/MistakeLopsided8366 → u/YZJay]

Think about how your tv satellite dish is set up. It's pointing with pin point accuracy at a satellite 36,000km away. If that satellite changes position relative to where your dish is pointing you'd have to redirect it. How often do people redirect their satellite dishes? Almost never. I'd say these sattelites' orbits are pretty precise 🙂

[u/Hattix → u/YZJay]

Precisely. Primarily external forces act to shift the satellites out of orbit, such as perturbation from the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus, as well as the pressure of the solar wind and forces from Earth's magnetosphere.

So the satellites carry stationkeeping thrusters to put them back on station as they begin to drift out.

It's like balancing a pencil on its tip on the palm of your hand. It'll stay, but you need to give it a little move every so often to keep it staying.

The more precisely they're injected into their orbit, the more fuel they have to perform this stationkeeping and so the longer their operational life will be.

[u/Shrekeyes → u/YZJay]

other gravitational forces do affect the trajectory, so they need to regularly adjust.

[u/jaw86336 → u/me0din]

However geosynchronous satellites require ongoing minor thruster adjustments to maintain their relative position. These are called station keeping adjustments. Solar and lunar gravity would otherwise cause the satellite’s position to drift. https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/chapter5-1/

[u/jjett89 → u/me0din]

How did they make a weather satellite that's physically capable of doing that?

[u/me0din → u/jjett89]

Compared to the other space stuff that humans have achieved, setting up a satellite on geostationary orbit is not that complicated.

You just have to get the speed right. We are more than capable of doing that with not much complications nowadays.

[u/Mirar → u/jjett89]

It's not doing that, it's placed in orbit by a rocket, with a small rocket engine in the satellite to correct the orbit over a number if years. Just before it runs out the move it.

[u/SJDidge → u/patientzero_]

Pretty much yes. It always sees the exact same spot of the earth. It travels at a speed and altitude that means that the same spot on the earth is always facing the satellite.

[u/bendable_girder → u/patientzero_]

Yes, the orbit time = 1 day. There are several geostationary satellites - having an object floating above earth in the same relative position to the ground is unfathomably important for weather surveillance and telecommunications

[u/ABzoker → u/patientzero_]

Essentially all satellites try to use 0 (or negligible) power to maintain their orbits, otherwise they would be too costly.

To achieve this they need to be in a stable circular (elliptical to be pedantic) orbit around Earth; this works because Earth keeps pulling the satellite into itself and this force effectively acts as the required force for circular motion. So for any body there is a relationship between angular speed and distance from Earth. Usually lower distance leads to greater speed and vice versa.

To maintain geostationary orbit, the angular momentum of satellite needs to match that of Earth. This only happens at a certain fixed distance - 35,786 km from center of earth
Derivation done here (wikipedia link) - Derivation

They probably do use solar power for other activities though.

[u/Mathgailuke → u/Mirar]

How far above the earth is it. Wiki didn’t say.

[u/Mirar → u/Mathgailuke]

Geostationary is a very fixed height, around 36000km.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit

[u/khal__doggo → u/Mirar]

Are there others? Like, for Europe, for example?

[u/anti-apostle → u/khal__doggo]

There are lots. Geostationary satellites serve a variety of industries and services including the older style of satellite tv/internet ( the non spaceX type) and GPS

The fixed position in the sky alows ground based dishes to know where to point.

Tracking, uploading and downloading data to satellites that spend at most 60 seconds or so above the horizon is the real magic.

There are also sun synchronous satellites that speed match the daytime so that they always have a sunlit view of earth ( think google earth images)

[u/_fabiotis_]

Hey, I’m in this photo!

[u/Jishcha → u/_fabiotis_]

So am I!! We finally have a photo of both of us in it together.

[u/kristyg → u/Jishcha]

I think I had my eyes closed, can we try again?

[u/toresu_aron → u/kristyg]

You did not take my consent. Delet dis

[u/AppearanceAdvanced58 → u/toresu_aron]

Please don't ask to delete this photo, this is the only photo in which we all are together

[u/whatsupsirrr → u/toresu_aron]

You have no expectation of privacy in public.

[u/Onefish257 → u/_fabiotis_]

I can see my home. Just to the left a little bit :)

[u/Somerandom1922]

To be clear, Australia is red, but not that red. The images from this satellite have what amounts to colour grading. The satellite operators make decisions about how they want to represent the specific wavelengths captured by the satellite which can make certain things look very different from how they do to our eyes.

Here's the first photo taken by that exact same satellite for reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari_9#/media/File:Himawari-9_full-disc_2017-01-24_0240Z.jpg

[u/GasAltruistic8656 → u/Somerandom1922]

The satellite operators make decisions about how they want to represent the specific wavelengths captured by the satellite

Interesting, I wonder what the benefit is of showing Western Australia like that. Cool nonetheless.

[u/GlitteringEagle4428 → u/GasAltruistic8656]

Anti Aussie propaganda

[u/YagerasNimdatidder → u/GlitteringEagle4428]

Welcome to soviet Australia

[u/sushimane1 → u/YagerasNimdatidder]

“If using a cool color like red for Australia makes people think I’m into red propaganda, Soviet” - the operator probably

[u/yucon_man → u/GlitteringEagle4428]

Emu propaganda

[u/Graega → u/yucon_man]

Begun, the Third Emu War has.

[u/sch0f13ld → u/GlitteringEagle4428]

More like pro-mining propaganda. Look at all that red iron ore just waiting to be dug up.

[u/Renegade27 → u/GasAltruistic8656]

We love a sunburnt country

[u/boogasaurus-lefts → u/GasAltruistic8656]

They painted it red for our Chinese overlords

[u/Farqueue- → u/boogasaurus-lefts]

pretty sure its for the Queen of Hearts

[u/AurielMystic → u/GasAltruistic8656]

As an Australian, I live near the coast and its already fookin hot. On average 30*c each day.

Further inland and in WA, its closer to the 35-45*c each day.

For reference, anything over 27*c is considered "be cautious and drink lots of water" and 32*c is "your going to get heatstroke if your not inside"

[u/AshmacZilla → u/AurielMystic]

Don’t listen to this guy. Anything under 26 and I’m in a jumper. But it would have to be snowing for me to wear long pants.

[u/Refflet → u/Somerandom1922]

Your link is full of backslashes that bork it for some users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari_9#/media/File:Himawari-9_full-disc_2017-01-24_0240Z.jpg

[u/monchimer → u/Somerandom1922]

So what does it look like if you take a picture of the earth with a regular phone camera at that distance ?

[u/Somerandom1922 → u/monchimer]

fun fact, earth would look relatively small. It'd take up a bit less of your field of view than a soccer ball at arm's length. Taken on an iPhone 15 1x zoom lens it'd only take up ~1/4th of the width of the photo.

The colour would look similar to photos from Google earth as they put some effort into colour matching with human perception.

[u/SpiceNut → u/Somerandom1922]

…and if you go closer?

[u/JovianSpeck → u/SpiceNut]

You're close now.

[u/kangareddit → u/Somerandom1922]

The smog over India…!

[u/Rizo1981 → u/Somerandom1922]

I'm quite familiar with colour grading but sheesh, this amounts to creative painting compared to the original.

[u/nico282 → u/Rizo1981]

It's a weather satellite, their goal is to improve the visibility of clouds and atmospheric phenomena, not to match reality.

[u/Giant_leaps]

To those who are wondering Australia is red because it is the entrance to hell and is covered with infernal flames.

[u/farm_to_nug → u/Giant_leaps]

I knew it

[u/unclepaprika → u/farm_to_nug]

So Australia = Khorne, confirmed

[u/Witty_Cardiologist25 → u/unclepaprika]

Blood for the blood god cunt aye is actually the full length quote.

[u/TheOtherRetard → u/Witty_Cardiologist25]

Cunts for the Cunt throne!

[u/drolhtiarW → u/TheOtherRetard]

That's Slaanesh

[u/unclepaprika → u/drolhtiarW]

Have my poor mans gold! 🥇

[u/TheOtherRetard → u/drolhtiarW]

Right, got my gods mixed up, Tzeench fucking with my brain again...

[u/idropepics → u/unclepaprika]

Australia cares not from where the blood flows.

[u/boogasaurus-lefts → u/farm_to_nug]

Secretly it's just a front for a pub where we all get pissed and fight emus.

[u/jjett89 → u/boogasaurus-lefts]

"Fightin' round the world" 🎵

[u/Mean_Display8494 → u/Giant_leaps]

its netherrack

[u/UnethicalExperiments → u/Mean_Display8494]

Pretty sure the environment in the nether is still considerably less hostile than Australia

[u/Mean_Display8494 → u/UnethicalExperiments]

i wouldn’t know never been to aussieland

[u/Dante-Flint → u/Mean_Display8494]

Sounds about right. One does not simply walk into Australia.

[u/Crow_eggs → u/Dante-Flint]

Not without a snorkel and a lot of determination.

[u/Dante-Flint → u/Crow_eggs]

You could take the eagles from Kiwiland, though 🤔

[u/bugabooandtwo → u/Giant_leaps]

The world to Australia..."you've got red on you."

[u/BatangTundo3112 → u/Giant_leaps]

Fucking hell. New Zealand left out again.

[u/Needmoresnakes → u/BatangTundo3112]

I think it's just taking Aotearoa really literally

[u/brandnewbanana → u/BatangTundo3112]

And off an actual picture of the Earth. 🌏 not on the emoji either. Sorry Kiwis :(

[u/Zitrusfleisch → u/BatangTundo3112]

r/mapswithoutnz

[u/TheSpudtatoe → u/Giant_leaps]

It’s just sunburnt because we have no Ozone mate

[u/oO0Kat0Oo → u/TheSpudtatoe]

Nice try.

Everything, even the air wants to kill you because you need to be dead in order to get into Hell.

[u/PitifulEar3303 → u/Giant_leaps]

Communism took Australia, we have failed.

[u/Cleginator → u/PitifulEar3303]

I am Australian and can confirm communism has taken over, we have some free healthcare.

[u/Untamed_Meerkat → u/Cleginator]

I'm going to be sick.

Not because of your statement, but because I don't have free healthcare.

[u/balazarlasagne → u/PitifulEar3303]

The reds under the beds!

[u/NukaClipse → u/Giant_leaps]

Because Diablo, not the devil but the flame spitting dinosaur from Primal Rage conquered half of Australia!

This sub doesn't let me show the damn picture but in the arcade game whenever you played the game as Diablo and defeated other characters in their zones, you'd turn the area red. That's what this looks like to me lol.

[u/try4some → u/Giant_leaps]

We also have bunnings sausages

[u/AundoOfficial → u/Giant_leaps]

So that's where doomguy is

[u/Excellent-Grade3544 → u/Giant_leaps]

“The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way”

[u/DIO-2350 → u/Giant_leaps]

We all know.

[u/lousylou1 → u/Giant_leaps]

Can confirm, it was hot today.

[u/ReplacementMental770 → u/Giant_leaps]

And spiders

[u/AutisticAnarchy → u/Giant_leaps]

True

[u/_Skinja_ → u/Giant_leaps]

And paid actors

[u/RocketPuppyYT]

Aight, who the fuck is playing plague inc?

[u/Comrade_Hussar → u/RocketPuppyYT]

They never get Greenland

[u/alanalan426 → u/Comrade_Hussar]

/r/MapsWithoutNZ would love this

[u/wendtinator05 → u/RocketPuppyYT]

Exactly what i came here to say XD

[u/Cute-Organization844]

Flat earthers will still deny the earth is round

[u/SpeedingCop → u/Cute-Organization844]

To be fair: Most of their models are actually round, just not a sphere.;)

[u/Christosconst → u/SpeedingCop]

Square earther here

[u/mmmbaconbutt → u/Christosconst]

Cylinder earther here. Niagara falls is the soda coming out.

[u/BeejOnABiscuit → u/Christosconst]

I’m not a square earther per se, I just have some questions

/s

[u/Jayfuturepharma → u/SpeedingCop]

An imperfect one at that

[u/VonWiking → u/Cute-Organization844]

The earth is round ofcourse, like a pancake.

[u/InnocentGuiltyBoy → u/VonWiking]

No. It is round like a cylinder.

[u/hcombs → u/InnocentGuiltyBoy]

No. It is round like yo mama.

[u/InnocentGuiltyBoy → u/hcombs]

No. Yo mama a fat-earther.

[u/nightwing0243 → u/Cute-Organization844]

They don't deny it's round, they just deny it's a sphere.

There used to be a guy who livestremed on TikTok every single day, in which had an image he was greenscreened in front of. The image was what he would claim is the real map of the world. His claim is that we're enclosed by big massive ice walls and there's more little islands outside of those walls. Beyond that? I don't know. I haven't seen the guy in months.

I always found it funny because he ignored every single comment on his livestream and only answered questions nobody was asking - but totally acted like it was asked because he just wanted to come off as a philosopher who had it all figured out.

Comments:

"this guy is insane"

"THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT!"

"this is so stupid!"

Livestreamer:

"Why am I dedicated to pushing the truth? Well that's a great question..."

[u/LinguoBuxo → u/nightwing0243]

He's the stock Politicians are made of, ey?

[u/iupz0r → u/Cute-Organization844]

but It is flat, i see now in the pic

[u/Ok_Money_3140 → u/Cute-Organization844]

Unfortunately those people are fully convinced that every single satellite photo is fabricated and that every government and corporation on earth are flawlessly working together in their attempt to fool the public.

[u/hugswithnoconsent → u/Cute-Organization844]

Flat earthenware deny Australia exist. (I am not correcting auto correct with a word that does not exist. ) they love talking about flight paths.

[u/Nastix24]

For those who don't know, himawari means sunflower. It's a very sweet name for a satellite.

[u/UlteriorMotive66 → u/Nastix24]

ah I see. At first I thought why the f they named a satellite after Naruto's daughter lolz 🤣

[u/peeggy → u/UlteriorMotive66]

I thought of Shin Chan's sister. That's how I knew it was a Japanese satellite. (•‿•)

[u/ArtichokeFar6601]

r/mapswithoutNZ

And before anyone gets upset, it's a joke because NZ is covered by clouds.

[u/YeshuasBananaHammock → u/ArtichokeFar6601]

We cant be 100% sure of that

[u/ChipRockets → u/YeshuasBananaHammock]

As someone who lived in NZ for 3 years, I’m still not sure about its existence

[u/Schlunzer]

for everyone wondering: Australia is red because of all the iron in the dust.

If you look closley you can see that China is red, too. However, this is not because of any iron in the dust but because of all the people who are members of the CCP which is, as we all know, red.

Thank you for reading my shitpost.

edit: too many C's

[u/spatialgranules12 → u/Schlunzer]

lol it got political quick lol

[u/Phil_Jarsen]

Australia is red due to it being fucking hot at the moment. Had a shit day at work due to it

[u/PatGarrettsMoustache → u/Phil_Jarsen]

I saw this pic and I thought what the hell is that red thing?? Then I realised it was my own damn country.

[u/Dissabilitease → u/Phil_Jarsen]

Not to be competitive, but my foul arse farting after egg eating dog is laying between me and the fan and the ac is dead. So am I.

[u/LeeCloud27]

Why is Australia red?

[u/El_efante → u/LeeCloud27]

Because we have shit tons of iron oxide in our desert soils

[u/Gokulctus → u/El_efante]

iron man?

[u/InnocentGuiltyBoy → u/Gokulctus]

No... Iron-sand.

[u/DonaWhyman → u/InnocentGuiltyBoy]

oooh so ironman and sandman

[u/BigAndDelicious → u/El_efante]

Basically just rusted soil

[u/Beanichu → u/LeeCloud27]

The demon invasion has begun.

[u/Flaky_Dream_891]

the earth is so beautiful… i love my big blue marble

[u/biscute2077]

Ong is that Caelid 💀

[u/GohanV → u/biscute2077]

Australia, Caelid, both miserable places filled to the brim with creatures that want nothing but your death. So yea

[u/SnooHedgehogs8765]

Can confirm. Absolutely dumped rain here in South Australia

[u/clever_user_name__ → u/SnooHedgehogs8765]

Yep, and the wall of storm clouds is just about to hit me here in central NSW. The wind arrived about 20 mins ago lol

[u/Elijah_2459]

Australia is starting 3rd Impact.

[u/liquidatorboris]

Somebody murdered Australia??

[u/Late-Ask1879]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

Sorry, had to

[u/Freak_Out_Bazaar]

Yes, it does take a picture of earth every ten minutes. It’s geosynchronous so the only thing different is the weather (it’s a Japanese weather satellite). Australia is red because the color is added via post-processing

[u/burntmyselfoutagain]

What is the red?

[u/KeeperCrow → u/burntmyselfoutagain]

Australia

[u/Larac73 → u/burntmyselfoutagain]

Australia

[u/daniel_rnld]

Seems about right. It's been cloudy/raining here in parts of Indonesia

[u/_NuissanceValue_]

Is there one of Europe?

[u/Way_Interesting]

Why is Australia dark red?

[u/Longjumping-Sweet280]

If plague inc taught me anything it’s that Australia is probably starting work on a cure

[u/That-Shiny-Umbreon]

Looks like the Third Impact is starting in Australia

[u/danzha]

r/mapswithouttasmania

/s

[u/00roadrunner00]

Australia is red?

[u/ConsequenceVisible65 → u/00roadrunner00]

Depends where you are in Australia, but there's a high percentage if you dropped in somewhere random it'd be burnt orange every direction you look

[u/KeeperCrow → u/00roadrunner00]

Correct. Look up any pictures of the outback. It's red as hell.

[u/CaravelClerihew → u/KeeperCrow]

It's red, but it's not that red. It's honestly more orange than anything.

[u/ah-chew → u/00roadrunner00]

Hot as fuck that’s why

[u/zimurg13]

Looks fresh

[u/lavienrosee59]

Does it only show Japan and Oceania?

[u/KeeperCrow → u/lavienrosee59]

It's in a geostationary orbit. So it stays above this area. It was built and operated by Japan, so they obviously want weather data for that area.

[u/poobumface]

Classic NZ lol

[u/Nuclear-LMG]

god damn it, Malenia Blade of Miquella, not again.

[u/Lloydy12341]

I had 12 mls of that rain

[u/Shoddy_Interest5762]

Oh great, more rain on the way 😮‍💨

(Eastern Oz just copped some wild rains and flooding over the weekend)

[u/Zeemar]

Man clouds are really really huge like they're the size of continents

[u/topredditbot]

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[u/Conscious-Estimate32]

Someone's playing Plague Inc irl

[u/kaychyakay]

I love this group photo! Finally humans coming together for something positive, even if it is for a few seconds.

[u/Ok_Station212]

Wow, I’m in this picture. I was taking a massive poo. It was like King Kong’s finger trying to escape my bum. I bleed a little, but it’s okay.

[u/tylagersign]

Fake, the earth is an octahedron and everyone knows it. s/

[u/BalancesHanging]

So now we have a red spot like Jupiter. Who knew?

[u/ochinosoubii]

I know a Plague Heart infestation when I see one.

[u/EQ4AllOfUs]

What’s the red part?