Explore planet Earth in near-real time

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Have you ever wanted to track natural events in progress, such as fires, floods and volcanic eruptions, or simply explore the planet through the eyes of a satellite? ESA has created a website, MIRAVI, which gives access to the most recently acquired images from the world’s largest Earth Observation satellite, Envisat.

MIRAVI, short for MERIS Images RApid VIsualisation, tracks Envisat around the globe, generates images from the raw data collected by Envisat’s optical instrument, MERIS, and provides them online within two hours. MIRAVI is free and requires no registration.

Feature: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM0GW8L6VE_index_0.html

Actual site:

http://miravi.eo.esa.int/en/

[it is a big site that can sometimes take a while to download]