Researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) have come up with a novel idea for augmenting weather satellite coverage. SSEC has its own weather satellite in orbit, the Suomi NPP, and works in conjunction with NASA to use data from the agency's Terra and Aqua satellites. …

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Wednesday 17th July 2013 01:07 GMT Anonymous Coward

Yo Mama

Yo Mama so fat, she show up on Suomi pictures!

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Wednesday 17th July 2013 08:04 GMT James 51

Nice bit of crowd sourcing there.

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Wednesday 17th July 2013 08:49 GMT oldhand

James,

Don't you mean Cloud sourcing?

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1. Wednesday 17th July 2013 09:44 GMT James 51
  
  I see what you did there, very droll.
  
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Wednesday 17th July 2013 10:30 GMT Evan Essence

Citizen Science FTW

Compare and contrast this use of the Internet with that other story about the whining ad man.

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Wednesday 17th July 2013 10:49 GMT squigbobble

Suomi NPP

Finnish satellite?

(Suomi is Finnish for Finland, for all the people with cartoon question marks hovering over their heads).

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Thursday 18th July 2013 02:18 GMT Martin Budden

"He's now seeking funding to get an Android version of SatCam out to widen the pool of potential pictures."

Why didn't he just develop it once in one of those cross-platform suites which then publishes to multiple platforms???

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