Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

What’s going on down there? NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite images the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away.
Image credit: NASA

We are a “planet-based” species – all of us on a spin-filled Earth now housing 8.3 billion people.

That’s the gravity of the situation.

But we’re also a world of floods, typhoons, earthquakes, heat and cold calamities, volcanic eruptions, even encounters with Sun-caused aurora and bruises from incoming space rocks.

It’s quite a world worth watching – and for decades that’s what spacecraft have been doing.

But what do they view and who’s on the other end of the space-based microscopes capturing our daily doings, faults and all, down here on terra firma?

Go to my new Space.com story – “The future of Earth observation: Private satellites and AI bring benefits but also pose risks – Observing Earth from orbit is an increasingly private affair” – at:

https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/the-future-of-earth-observation-private-satellites-and-ai-bring-benefits-but-also-pose-risks