Airplanes in the Day Sky
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There's a cache marker in the lower-right corner, but what is that at the upper left?
Why, yes, that is a commercial jet photographed in mid-flight from outer space. Anyone care to identify it for us?
This also betrays how satellite photography works: four images taken in rapid succession using a black-and-white CCD: first through a blue filter, then through a green filter, then through a red filter (note how green plus red = yellow, just like we learned in primary school), and unfiltered for luminosity. The four images are then combined to form a full-color picture.
Posted because Southern Man thought it was cool. That is all.
[added later] SR (consulted by email) points out some details that make it a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and that's good enough for Southern Man.
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What are your thoughts on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's cold case posse investigation of Obama? The results are due out next week I think in spite of the multiple death threats.
Sheriff Joe is a conundrum: he does many things right but the things he does wrong are so wrong that they defy imagination.
Who is Sheriff Joe? Why would a sheriff's office investigate Obama? Was he into stuff when he lived the guy's territory?
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