Space Station To Get HD Streaming Video Camera 50
superglaze writes "A high-definition streaming video camera is to be installed on the International Space Station within a year. Built in the UK, the camera will hopefully provide a Google Earth-quality view on our planet, and the stream will be viewable — complete with zooming and panning capabilities — on the web."
Al Gore proposed a satellite to do this in 1990s (Score:2, Interesting)
panning and zooming (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Al Gore proposed a satellite to do this in 1990 (Score:5, Interesting)
Too expensive said NASA.
But they built it anyway, and it sits in storage because no one has a launch plan.
Aka the Triana although the official marketing name was the DSCOVR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory [wikipedia.org]