alt Hacker NewsDear some very-rich person, please send a selfie-camera to the space! Yes, all that effort so we can keep looking at ourselves on a planet scale.
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MengerSponge • yesterday at 7:31 PM
Good news! We already have that! If you pay taxes to the US that's one of the thing you've helped pay for:
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/imagery/satellite-maps
For reasons that are unexplainable if you're the NYTimes, polluting industries have been trying to kill these missions for decades.
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It sounds trivial, but perspective shots like this are part of why public support for space programs exists at all