Daily tip: Try to visit more of our pages. As you can see, our blog isn't our only page. Our TMAD page is also available, where you can "go" to the TMAD. Also, our life page is open so you can visit the many species we have.
Welcome to our first website of the day post! I've been waiting to do this for a long time now, after we've been setting up our own website. I wanted to start these posts in January...but I had to help create the Team Manatee website and download the films.
Well, this post is not a get-a-link-and-go one. You have to read the whole thing.
Have you ever wanted to look into the sky? What lies beyond your neighbor's dead pine tree? The real question is, have you ever been to space. Well, if I'm guessing no, then this website is for you.
Satellites are not just the weird metal contraptions that give your phone Wifi so you can troll your friends online. Many scientists are using satellites to track weather conditions, climate change, habitat loss and way more. Thank the satellites the next time you have to wear a raincoat.
What exactly is a satellite? It is a machine sent to space that either takes photos of Earth or other objects in Outer Space. It also can voyage to other planets, like Mars. One thing that is so special about satellites are their ability use momentum to not fall into earth. When the satellites are blasted from earth, the momentum and Earth's gravity pushes them around Earth.The moment Satellites travel at 17000 mph. That's about 20 times the speed of sound! But when a satellite collides into dust and space junk, it loses kinetic energy, which makes it eventually come back to earth. So no, satellites don't stay in orbit forever.
So here is the website.https://fog.today/. It is a website that measures cloud cover around the Bay Area through a satellite in space. It is helpful for when the weather app is not accurate. By pressing the 24 and 2 hour loop, you can see where the clouds are moving, and if you know the cloud types, you can predict a rainstorm coming in!
What we use it for at the CCAG: We use this website mainly for taking timelapses. If the sky is clear - we may not take a timelapse. That is because there are no clouds to see. But if we see fog on the website coming from the ocean, but not yet visible at the CCAG, we'll set up a timelapse to capture incoming fog.
Another website that is similar (but less sketchy) is zoom.earth. Here you can see cloud cover throughout the whole world, temperature globally and even precipitation and wind! And it has something that fog.today doesn't have: it has a temperature prediction. Speaking of which, it looks like SF is going to be cooking Wednesday and Thursday - with temps soaring to the mid 80s!
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