This was a most rewarding Quest but also many hours spent on setting up Slooh Sentinel 2 missions, processing and fitting all my images onto the template.
Since Slooh introduced Earth Sciences, I have been able to get amazing satellite views of our planet. The more I explore, the more I realise that we do have a wonderful world.
The best part will be learning more about each of these craters.
Congratulations Slooh! This one was quite an adventure.
Satellite Explorer Quest
Inspired by Slooh‘s Parts of a River Quest, I became curious about inland deltas. I set up several satellite missions to get images of the great expanse of the Okavango Delta.
The Okavango River does not flow into the sea but spreads fanlike into the Kalahari Basin which is a very large lowland area (endorheic basin) These are called closed basins as they collect water but have no water flowing away from them.
This Delta is formed by seasonal flooding from March to June.
I have also learned that the Okavango Delta has important carbon sinks (pools) which take up more carbon from the atmosphere than is released.
Climate change is having a detrimental effect on the delta.
Slooh’s space exploration and Earth Sciences platform features an interface to satellites and online telescopes
It’s so hard to describe the feeling when you see objects in the night sky. Wow! is one of the most used of exclamations. Sometimes I get so excited that I almost can’t contain myself but I have always known it’s much more than just ‘wow’
Since Slooh launched Earth Sciences, I’ve had to search for a new exclamation.
All this while, I have been studying night sky objects, yet never thought that one day I would be studying satellite images of Earth. How could I understand the universe before understanding my own planet?
Slooh has come to the rescue! Earth Science quests leave me feeling humbled. I approach them as if I’m about to touch on something fragile. I don’t go ‘wow’ or jump up and down when I see my Terra images. Earth is serious stuff. Instead, a kind of quiet peace comes over me. If everyone could look at our planet in this different way, we might realise how much it needs our protection.
Thanks Slooh for this incredible opportunity.
Slooh is a robotic telescope and earth satellite service that can be viewed live through a web browser