Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island

Re:Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-A... by ericpauley on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:35AM (#20382152)

There's a huge amount of open data being made available by the Sentinel program. High-quality imagery is available at 2-3 day periods of nearly every landmass on earth, for free!

No need to take the article's word for it, here's an IR satellite view of the lava in question: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?lat=-57.79698&lng=...

You can do all sorts of things with this data. Excited to see what the maker community will figure out with it.

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Re:Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-A... by bliteben on Monday July 08, 2019 @09:51AM (#20382678)

What exactly is free? When I create an account it appears to be a paid api?

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Re:Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-A... by jofer on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:06AM (#20382793)

If you'd prefer: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/ or https://registry.opendata.aws/sentinel-2/

https://www.sentinel-hub.com/ is more for visualizing and playing around with the data in a web app.

This study also used historical ASTER data (nice selection of thermal bands), which is available at https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/data.asp

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Re:Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-A... by ge96 on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:25AM (#20382972)

nice site(OSM?) but dang that url history thing wow, had to hit back like 10 times to get back to HN haha

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