Imager

The prime instrument on GOES, called the Imager, is taking images of Earth with a 1 kilometer (km) or 0.62 mile resolution from an altitude of 36,000 km (22,240 miles) above Earth’s surface, equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from a distance of seven football fields.

A Press Release About An Image You Can't See - NASA Watch 2009

So..while I am a fan of Modesitt, and really looking forward to his new book Imager which is set in a new world, I wouldn't recommend new readers to get your introduction to this author from this book.

Review: The Lord-Protector's Daughter by L.E. Modesitt, Jr Jeff C 2009

ANALYSIS: For a general discussion of the pace, character development, magic system and all, Robert's FBC review of "Imager" is the place to go since this book keeps the same traits - the world building is still superb and we slowly learn more and more, there are lots of descriptions of appetizing meals, beautiful paintings, interesting sermons and when things happen, they happen fast and furiously.

Imager's Challenge (Imager #2) by LE Modesitt (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009

So..while I am a fan of Modesitt, and really looking forward to his new book Imager which is set in a new world, I wouldn't recommend new readers to get your introduction to this author from this book.

Archive 2009-01-01 Jeff C 2009

The prime instrument on GOES, called the Imager, is taking images of Earth with a 1 kilometer (km) or 0.62 mile resolution from an altitude of 36,000 km (22,240 miles) above Earth’s surface, equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from a distance of seven football fields.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: July 2009 Archives 2009

With the enmity of the most powerful High Holder Ryel earned in "Imager", enmity that if expressed in High Holder vendetta stops only when one or the other family is destroyed at least as far as the direct male line goes, with the unwelcome attention from any Collegium hater and with the two Collegium leaders determined on the century long policy of keeping the Collegium as un-intrusive as possible, Rhenn has his work cut out for him though he also has a "secret weapon", namely his fiancee Seliora's family and its "mob" ties...

Imager's Challenge (Imager #2) by LE Modesitt (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009

So while "Imager" and "Imager's Challenge" can be regarded as a "complete sub-series", Book 3 “Imager’s Intrigue”, currently scheduled for publication in Fall 2010 became a big asap novel for me.

Imager's Challenge (Imager #2) by LE Modesitt (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2009

This movie was created by overlaying the clouds observed several times per hour by NOAA's GOES Imager onto a true-color map previously derived from NASA's MODIS land-mapping instrument.

tingilinde: 2010

Now instruments like WMAP, ACBAR and the Cosmic Background Imager have revealed the power spectrum of the cosmic background to a precision that we know the age of the Universe since the big bang is 13.73 +/- 0.1 billion year.

tingilinde: 2009

This movie was created by overlaying the clouds observed several times per hour by NOAA's GOES Imager onto a true-color map previously derived from NASA's MODIS land-mapping instrument.

the midatlantic blizzards of early february 2010