http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/ Engadget Comments for DISH's Earth channel takes a big picture view http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/Apr 24th 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/Apr 24th 2009 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/I would rather have this than the shopping channel.....
TNX Dish....

Joe
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Seriously though, I think this is great. Good on Dish. HD would be even more awesome, but I suspect throwing an HD camera up there would have been a little ambitious. ]]>Apr 24th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/Apr 25th 2009 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/
http://dishnetworkdirectv.blogspot.com/]]>Apr 27th 2009 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/I am 69 years old and this one picture shows the sum of our technological leaps since I was a kid reading comic books about space travel. This picture shows just how insignificant we humans are. A space traveler could pass this close to Earth and never know there was intelligent life here (sometimes I wonder myself). PLEASE DON'T EVER TAKE THIS OFF THE AIR. Along with the nice music, I find myself just sitting here staring at this beautiful blue marble.
Sincerely
Lacy R. Jones
Batesville, AR
p.s. where can I get some answers to a technical question about this channel?]]>Apr 26th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/Apr 28th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/
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That other dot that moved from left to right of the screen in an apparent straight line is definitely a planet/star as it moved a bit north with every passing day, until now it has moved out of the field of view. This follows the Sun's movement northwards during summer (June 21st being the longest day of the year). So we should be seeing it back again sometime in July/August as the Sun starts its move back South.
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I recorded 16 HOURS of this channel and while the shadow moves the clouds do NOT. In all 16 hours the majority of America is under clouds. The storms in the Pacific DO NOT MOVE.

GIMMICK!!!]]>Jun 10th 2009 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/Try recording/watching the channel from day to day rather than day to night. Cloud formations are HUGE, they are like massive fog lakes that dangle our water reserve over our heads. From where you stand on the ground the clouds might move rather quickly and change rapidly but for a camera that is moving at millions of mph millions of miles away, things certainly look different. Actually, thanks to DISH we get to see a more accurate view of a very small part of our universe.
.]]>Jul 18th 2009 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/ I'm surprised how mesmerizing this image is. Finally, after 2.5 million years of clawing our way to continuous food supply, well constructed housing and reliable transportation we're able to sit down and look on the planet we live on. I'm sorry my ancestors missed it. It would have changed their lives. This is right out of Space Odyssey.]]>Jun 23rd 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/
Good stuff!]]>Jul 4th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/Jul 18th 2009 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/making us pay for some useless crap like that..bye bye dish]]>Jul 6th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/dishs-earth-channel-takes-a-big-picture-view/
But one thing just perplexes me terribly so... I don't know how to explain it but I found a time lapse of Echostar 11 (satellite) footage. Can anyone tell me what happens EXACTLY at 0:19-0:20 of the clip?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDvaU-GyIYE

Is this a flare? an illusion? a reality? I do not know...
Check out the moon as it sails by from 0:45-0:52!!!
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