It ’s been about 48 hour sincea duad of explosions shake the Taiwanese port city of Tianjin . At a force approach two 12 tons of TNT , they registered as seismic activity by China ’s National Earthquake web . And as these artificial satellite images show , they could also be seen from space .
These three animated images were captured by a trinity of Asian weather satellites . The one on top was taken by the latterly deployed Himawari-8 , while the other two were captured by an older Japanese manakin and a South Korean satellite .
Wired ’s Nick Stocktonexplains :
Although a tragical case study , it ’s impossible not to notice how much more advanced Himawari-8 is than its get on peers . Not only is its imagery is far less pixelated , but its capture rate is one double every ten minutes , compared to thirty and fifteen minute respective rates of the satellite imagery shown below it . Even ten minutes is the miserable limit of new satellite ’s capableness . If it had been programmed to focus on Tianjin in cash advance , it could have returned mental imagery at thirty 2nd interval . The frame rate and pixel resolution are such that you’re able to clearly see the gage cloud from the bam in Himawari-8 ’s frame2 .
Stockton says the figure were taken using filters that narrow slices of the infrared band , which lends well to seize meteorologically important phenomenon , such as clouds ( which can be visit at far right ) , fog , and fire .
[ telegraph ]
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