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Aang23 @aang23.satdump.org · 28/09/2026

JUICE (ESA) images from JMC again. Received by @amsat-dl.org in Bochum :-)

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 29/07/2026

Er is hoge druk om AI uit te rollen & als je de Thought Leaders volgt lijkt het wel alsof je verloren bent als je niet opschiet. Ook zijn er mensen mordicus tegen, zo tegen dat ze niet met de beste kritieken komen. Hier ideeën over wat nu te doen, en wat beter kan wachten: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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AI: Overwegingen voor wie erover gaat - Bert Hubert's writings

Onlangs presenteerde ik kort na elkaar bij het Netwerk van Publieke Dienstverleners en bij de Adviesraad Wetenschap, Technologie en Innovatie over AI. In deze twee verschillende maar korte presentatie...

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Slowly getting better at recognising the geo-location of home received X-band KANOPUS-V imagery, using cloud shadows to estimate latitude - 30/6 V 5: Witbank/Emalahleni, South Africa - 3/7 V 4: Al Theniah, Saudi Arabia - 8/7 V 4: Al Hazm, Yemen and Khbash, Saudi Arabia

High resolution imagery home received on X-band from one of the Russian Kanopus-V satellites.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Part of todays X-band harvest from global overview to small scale: ELEKTRO-L 2 Europe crop, FENGYUN 3F crop and two KANOPUS-V 5 crops (1: Lypchany, Ukraine, hydroelectric power plant near Dnister river and 2: Lacul Ceamurlia, Romania)

Weather satellite image from the Russian ELEKTRO-L 2 satellite - part of the Earth disk cutout showing Europe

Weather satellite image featuring part of Europe - from the Chinese Fengyun 3F weather satellite

Crop from high resolution images taken by the Russian Kanopus-V 5 satellite

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Megan Watzke @mwatzke.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Martin Weisskopf, who helped shape modern X-ray astronomy and was the Chandra Project Scientist for many years, died last week at the age of 84. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that people write letters of support to sustain the mission. www.berryhillfh.com/obituaries/m...

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Martin Charles Weisskopf Obituary May 2, 2026 - Berryhill Funeral Home & Crematory

View Martin Charles Weisskopf's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Yesterday I took a KANOPUS-V 3 X-band pass where I recognised an area from FENGYUN 3B images I received years ago. Navodari on the Black Sea coast. Local crop, somewhat bigger area (both PSS), a MSS false colour crop and a FENGYUN 3H crop of the area an hour or so later.

High resolution (2.5 m/pix) BW image of an area on the Black Sea coast.

High resolution (2.5 m/pix) BW image of an area on the Black Sea coast near where the Danube flows into the Black Sea.

False colour medium resolution (20 m/pix) image of the same area on the Black Sea coast.

Same area again, imaged by a regular Chinese weather satellite (some 175 m/pix resolution) FENGYUN 3H a few hours later.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A crop from the FengYun 3F X-band pass @ 11:03 UTC - vast flooding in S-W France also evident from large sediment outflows into the Sea/Ocean.

Weather satellite image of South West France, visually providing evidence of extensive flooding.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 20/01/2026

We’re sad to report the passing of former ESA Director of Science Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet on 19 January 2026, aged 88. 🔗 esa.int/About_Us/Cor... @cmundell.esa.int @science.esa.int @josefaschbacher.esa.int

Roger Bonnet, ESA's Director of Scientific Programmes, seen holding a model of Rosetta

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

From a FengYun 3H pass today at 12:22 UTC: a crop of Sicily with lots of smoke coming from mount Etna and colourful algae blooms around the island

An image taken by the Chinese weather satellite FengYun 3H capturing the island of Sicily with smoke coming from mount Etna and colourful algae blooms around the island.

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#OTD: 12 November 2014, @esa.int's Rosetta Philae lander made history by touching down on the surface of a comet, the first spacecraft ever to do so. The landing was confirmed at 16:03 GMT/17:03 CET 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @cnes.fr @dlr-de.bsky.social @operations.esa.int @science.esa.int

Rosetta’s lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander’s three feet can be seen in the foreground. The image is a two-image mosaic (pic: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA)

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Spent today X-band tracking "Le quattro stagioni" of FengYun weather satellites: 3D, 3E, 3F and 3H (and 3G) - data processing is a lot of work, so images later. First this solar FY3E XEUVI image with some nice solar flares and plasma arcs (and a cosmic ray hitting the detector)

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Lots of condensation trails can be seen on this Netherlands crop from a FY3F pass @ 10:55 UTC - but if these semi circles near the middle are condensation trails, what was that pilot doing ??

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A false colour crop of the Iberian peninsula from a Fengyun 3F pass @ 10:55 UTC. Absolutely shocking to see how big the burnt areas from the recent wildfires are !

False colour weather satellite image of the Iberian peninsula illustrating how incredibly big the burnt areas from the recent wildfires are.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

From a FY3F pass @ 09:46 UTC today, a Colour Infra Red (CIR) crop centered on Greece. A vast amount of bush fires can be seen, including what looks like a big one on the Island of Chios.

Weather satellite picture centered on Greece clearly showing signs of many large bush fires in the area, also on the island of Chios.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

From a X-band pass of FengYun 3D @ 14:33 UTC today a MERSI false colour and true colour UK/Ireland crop.

A weather satellite image of the UK taken by a Chinese weather satellite at 14:33 UTC today, allowing to identify the areas affected by drought.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Infinitely better than the ESA original

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

From the METEOR-M2 4 KMSS pass this PM, a few European small to mid-sized Isles. 1: Oléron and Ré, 2: Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney (rest under the clouds), 3: Wight, 4: Texel

Satellite images of a number of smaller European Isles.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Using the great SatDump s/w - from @aang23.satdump.org et al - on the verywip branch I managed to salvage some semi-decent image from a bad METEOR-M2 4 pass (4.7 dB pk S/N) from last Friday, showing the Rhine river in between the Vosges and the Black Forest

Satellite image from a Russian weather satellite showing the flow of the Rhine river in between the Vosges (France) and the Black Forest (Germany).

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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 22/06/2025

Italy from the ISS. Enlarged and levels adjusted by me.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Part of todays received X-band harvest. From ELEKTRO-L 2 a (semi)geo-stationary satellite a view of the Western hemisphere with: top-middle Newfoundland and the St Lawrence river to Quebec city, lower left Cuba. From JPSS-2 W-Europe with London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 16/06/2025

Proba-3 achieves its first ‘artificial total solar eclipse’ in orbit. The mission can create these eclipses once every 19.6-hour orbit & make them last up to 6 hours. With such observations scientists will be able to answer long-lasting questions about our star 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 🔭 🧪 ☀️

This is an image of the Sun during an artificial solar eclipse. Against a black background, the Sun’s bright body is covered by a black disc, and light green hair-like tendrils extend from the black disc in all directions. Brighter green light peeks from behind the black disc’s edge, slowly fading towards the outer edges of the image.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Was busy with two space related activities today: 1. Receiving an X-band image from ELEKTRO-L 2 @ 14:30 UTC today (peak S/N 11.0 dB, avg 10.3 dB) and 2. Reviving a 2014 OpenSUSE VirtualBox VM for processing @science.esa.int Mars-Express data; a Nadir channel image of Phobos by the HRSC camera

Crop of a weather satellite image from the Russian geostationary ELEKTRO-L 2 satellite.

An image of Phobos by the European Space Agency mission Phobos, launched 22 years ago this week. Taken in the Nadir channel by the HRSC camera. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin CC-BY-SA 3.0

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

From ELEKTRO-L2 @ 17:00 (local) - channel 3.Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic/Haiti, Cuba, Florida and Columbia and Venezuela can be clearly seen.

A crop of a full hemisphere image by the Russian weather satellite ELEKTRO-L 2 taken @ 17:00 (local) - channel 3. Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic/Haiti, Cuba, Florida and Columbia and Venezuela can be clearly seen.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Using the verywip branch of the mighty SatDump to align the METEOR-M2 4 KMSS channels of an earlier recorded pass (20250402) - a Colour Infra Red view of the Wadden sea and the Northern part of my country. Excellent job @aang23.satdump.org !

Weather satellite picture of the Northern part of the Netherlands and the Wadden sea (UNESCO World Heritage) in a so-called colour infrared composition.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I have been using some French and Dutch coastline scenery to optimise my own CADU reading/geometry correction software using a FY3F pass at 12:22 today and the CADU created from it with the unique SatDump S/W. Still some way to go, but not bad. Dotting the i's crossing the t's.

Weather satellite imagery used to correct the geometric distortions induced by the imaging system on the FY3F weather satellite. French coastline.

Weather satellite imagery used to correct the geometric distortions induced by the imaging system on the FY3F weather satellite. Dutch coastline.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

From FY3F @ 11:31 and FY3D @ 15:12 today - in just under 4 hours there is a vast movement and weather evolution in this area around Southern Italy/Sicily.

Weather satellite picture of the area around Southern Italy and Sicily showing a very fast evolution (when comparing with the two images) of the weather in just under 4 hours.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Two crops from a difficult Suomi NPP X-band pass @ 13:48 local. Southern Italy and NW Europe. Wild signal variations as usual.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A while back I monitored the ELEKTRO-L 2 carrier 16 hours assuming its power would tell me when image transmission signal is best. Today I followed that recipe and received my first "images" of the season, far from perfect. Also noted in between images a low rate TM signal (BPSK ?)

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

From the METEOR-M2 4 KMSS pass @ 15:20 yesterday. A crop of the Netherlands and the Northern part of Denmark.

Pseudo colour weather satellite imagery showing a crop of the Netherlands by the METEOR-M2 4 weather satellite.

Pseudo colour weather satellite imagery showing a crop of the North of Denmark by the METEOR-M2 4 weather satellite.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

While visiting @operations.esa.int today for witnessing the Gaia passivation activities (honoured to have been invited) I noted these portraits at the entrance to the press center: Vera Rubin and Katherine Johnson ….. bravo @esa.int

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Crop from a FY3F pass @ 11:06 - Sahara dust blown over the Mediterranean from the Tunisian and Libyan deserts.

Weather satellite image showing shara dust blown over the mediterranean from the Tunisian and Libyan deserts.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

True colour crop from the FengYun 3F pass @ 10:38 today. Some of the major European mountain ranges in full glory.

Weather satellite picture of a cloudless central/eastern European continent, highlighting many of the major European mountain ranges.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

From a FengYun 3E X-band pass at 17:14 today - a fairly cloudless Europe

Weather satellite picture of a fairly cloudless Europe at the end of the sun illuminated day.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It must be getting boring, but from further tests today using a FY3F pass at 10:34 local, crop of the Gulf of Bothnia (w. Sea Ice), Norway, Sweden and Finland. The @rfnotmagic (X) SDR @ 122.88 MHz, recorded with @ryzerth (X) SDR++, demodulated and decoded with @aang23.satdump.org et al SatDump

Weather satellite picture of the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland) also showing sea Ice in the gulf of Bothnia.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

From the second FengYun 3F weather satellite pass today at 12:37 local, some more tests: crop of the UK/Ireland. Using the @rfnotmagic (X) SDR @ 122.88 MHz, recorded, demodulated and decoded with the @aang23.satdump.org et al SatDump software.

Weather satellite picture of the UK and Ireland, showing clear colorations in the surrounding sea.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

From the FengYun 3F weather satellite pass this AM at 10:54 local, some further tests: crop of the North Africa Mediterranean coastline. Using the @rfnotmagic (X) SDR @ 61.44 MHz, recorded, demodulated and decoded with the @aang23.satdump.org et al SatDump software

Weather satellite picture of the North African Mediterranean coastline.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

From the FengYun 3F weather satellite pass this AM at 11:14 local: sun over my country in between the clouds. Doing some testing using the @rfnotmagic (X) @ 61.44 MHz, recorded with @ryzerth (X) SDR++ and decoded with @aang23 et al SatDump software

Weather satellite picture of the Netherlands in between clouds

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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A big power company wants to build a huge industrial complex near Paranal, the top astronomical site in the world (VLT, ELT etc.). Here is a petition for physics/astro professionals 🧪🔭, please consider signing. Even if you're not, pls help raise awareness by sharing the links in the petition. Thx! 🙏

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Urgent Call from the International Astronomical Community for the Protection of Chile's Astronomical Heritage / Llamado Urgente de la Comunidad Astronómica Internacional por la Protección del Legado A...

This form aims to collect signatures from scientists from the physical and astronomical sciences to support the letter Urgent Call from the International Astronomical Community for the Protection of C...

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

From METEOR-M2 4 KMSS - channel 3, the area between Wales and the Lake District on the UK's west coast - bottom left the Isle of Anglesey. And from this AM a nice NOAA 21 view of the Black Sea with plenty of snow in the areas around it.

Russian weather satellite picture of the UK's west coast between Wales and the Lake district.

Weather satellite picture by NOAA 21 of the area surrounding the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, clearly showing lots of snow and ice in the area

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Some recent tests under Mint 22.1. From METEOR-M2 4 a KMSS crop (14:56 today) of Normandy showing the massive floods from storm Hermine (for the nice colours ask @petermeteor or @g5juergenm ). Also two crops from FY3D @ 14:59 yesterday. Storm Hermine and a crop of the Alps.

Weather satellite image of Normandy showing the aftermath/flooding by storm Hermine.

Weather satellite image showing storm Hermine over France.

Crop of the snowy Alps from a weather satellite image.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Couldn’t resist posting this one from Banksy art official on FB

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I think we can safely call this the calm before the storm (False colour, Airmass and Water vapour images from FY3D @ 15:16) - and pls ignore Stockholm being in the mid-Atlantic, little s/w problem. Thank you #satdump

Weather satellite images by FengYun 3D of a strong storm approaching Ireland/Scotland

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Using a GIMP recipe by g5juergenm (X) passed on to me by petermeteor (X) : revisiting a METEOR-M2 4 KMSS pass from 23-oct-2024. Danube delta region/Romanian Black Sea coast - Just need to master Jürgens superior colouring skills ;-) And of course behind the scenes the amazing #SatDump.

Part of a weather satellite picture transmitted by the Russian weathersat METEOR-M2 4, depicting a part of the Romanian Black Sea coast and the Danube delta.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Today marks the end of the @esa.int science data taking after some 10.5 years. The data processing by the Gaia DPAC (and ESA) will continue with 2 more data releases around 2026 and the end of the decade. Standing on the sunshield of a Gaia 1:1 model at ESAC back in my @esa.int days.

Myself standing on the sunshield of a 1:1 model of the ESA science Gaia spacecraft at the Spanish ESA establishment ESAC. I was project scientist for Gaia in 2006 and mission manager for 5.5 years starting early 2015.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Here in Holland we started to doubt whether the Sun still existed, but this morning we had blue skies. From a Fengyun 3F pass @ 11:15 - crop of the Netherlands with some snow in the South-East. Also plenty of snow in the UK.

Chinese weather satellite picture showing a fairly sunny Holland with some snow in the South-Eastern part.

Chinese weather satellite picture showing plenty of snow fell in the UK.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Once again using the #SatDump down convertor on an X-band pass of NOAA 20 @ 13:40. Small crop showing snow deposits on the North of Ireland, Scotland and England. Also, roughly the same area a few hours later in the thermal infrared by Fengyun 3E.

Small part of a weather satellite image showing snow deposits on the North of Ireland, Scotland and England.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Finally got around to testing the #SatDump X-band down convertor and out of the box, with a little wiring, it worked very well. More real testing to do, but for now pretty happy ! Tested on SYRACUSE 3B and FENGYUN 3E (somewhere under those clouds my country is well hidden).

Testing the down convertor using SYRACUSE 3B.

Weather satellite image received using the new X-band down convertor.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

From a METEOR-M2 4 pass @ 14:37 with max elevation 80.7 east, some KMSS crops. First the Danish east coast, second (North) Yorkshire with snow/frost on the Moors and top left the Pennines. Colour channel alignment is difficult.

Russian weather satellite imagery of the Danish east coast.

Russian weather satellite image of North Yorkshire in the UK.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

From an FY3E pass @ 16:36 - crop of SE Europe in the InfraRed. And for the in-crowd XEUVI was on.

InfraRed weather satellite image of South-East Europe from a pass today at 16:36. Nice view of Greece, Turkey and the Black Sea.

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Fred Jansen @redplanet00.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

From an X-band pass of Fengyun 3D at 14:14. Seasonal greetings and all the best wishes for 2025.

Weather satellite image of the Alps with the text : merry christmas and a happy new year.

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