The Camera Is the Lidar

Re:The Camera Is the Lidar by deepnotderp on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:30PM (#17899045)

Also note that in space there's way less background noise.

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Re:The Camera Is the Lidar by foota on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:36PM (#17899270)

This made me curious, how wide is Earth's shadow the the height the space station is at?

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Re:The Camera Is the Lidar by simcop2387 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:56PM (#17899521)

I doubt it'd be significantly smaller than the diameter of the earth already. Can't think of how to set it up but the the ISS is only ~250mi above the earth so my guess would be only a couple hundred miles shorter than the earth's diameter at most.

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Re:The Camera Is the Lidar by teraflop on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:48PM (#17899495)

Almost exactly as wide as the Earth.

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