Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid

Re:Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant... by m3at on Thursday July 11, 2019 @12:41AM (#20409183)

Only tangentially related but I'd like to share it as space nerds (like me) may love it:

https://mainenginecutoff.com/blog/2019/05/downlink

This is a small mac app getting real time satellite images, and using it as your wallpaper. One of the source is Jaxa's Himawari-8, hence the link.

Also, the podcasts from Anthony Colangelo (same page) are pretty good to keep up with the space industry

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Re:Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant... by domsl on Thursday July 11, 2019 @08:14AM (#20410907)

There is also desktop earth for non Mac users: http://www.anka.me/desktopearth.aspx

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Re:Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant... by lamchob on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:34AM (#20409767)

As GOES covers the US Coasts, and Himawari-8 Japan/East Asia/Australia, do you know of any geostationary satellites over Europe, from which the live images are available?

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Re:Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant... by zeeZ on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:18AM (#20410431)

Does this fit the bill?

https://eumetview.eumetsat.int/static-images/latestImages.ht...

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Re:Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant... by peach on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:24AM (#20412247)

This is really cool. Thanks for creating it and sharing it. Already installed :)

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