Local Date

6 December 2024

Local Time

11:19

Location

London

Country or Territory

UK

Name

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

Satellite

NOAA-18

Archive ID

ow869

Coordinates

51.55, -0.06

The needle on the barometer crept up from its place around 1,009 hPa yesterday afternoon to 1019 today around noon. True to the barometer, the sky opened up into a clear, crisp blue. I was reminded of Gaston Bachelard's writing on the aerial imagination, and his writing of air as 'thin matter' that is especially sensible to poets.

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