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light rain,

fish,

siblinghood,

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nice,

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#NOKINGS,

in China,

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on,

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restoration,

on my mind,

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drizzle,

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29.84Inhg,

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29.75Inhg,

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75F,

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geological ghosts,

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us,

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taken for granted,

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clouds,

of,

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INCREDIBLE,

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debris,

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climate whiplash,

changing,

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high pressure,

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misty,

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warmth,

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LA,

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Palisades fire,

uncontained,

Evacuate,

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vultures soaring,

quiet,

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interference,

adaptation,

suspicion,

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air quality alert,

inversion layer,

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1.5°C,

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rising,

cyclical,

loss,

fire,

climate reality,

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bright,

underground,

hum of seeds,

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worms,

mulch,

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forgery,

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civil war,

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weather,

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temperature rising,

decay,

dirt,

soil,

what you know,

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Tribe,

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Democracy,

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Anthropocene,

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Atlantic cooling,

Amoc,

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anticipation,

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everything,

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ten foot surge,

1000 year storm,

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Milton,

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people,

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local,

light,

hotter,

learn,

radiate,

weather balloon,

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2025-05-01 22:55:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-05-01 22:52:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-05-01 22:06:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-05-01 11:31:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-05-01 13:02:16

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

This image was gathered as part of a class workshop I ran today, as a simple way of bearing out the radio networks that underpin much of our contemporary environment.

2025-05-01 11:21:51

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

This image was gathered as part of a class workshop I ran today, as a simple way of bearing out the radio networks that underpin much of our contemporary environment.

2025-05-01 11:24:00

Hana, Iker, Silvia

New Cross, London, United Kingdom

We made the mistake of starting and stopping the recording sporadically. So this image represents the individual recordings spliced together using Audition.

2025-05-01 11:18:54

Giorgia Chiarion, Delphine Tomes, Riccardo Rizzetto

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London, United Kingdom

it was very hot and muggy but also dry? much excitement as we heard the sounds of the satellite broadcast. simultaneous conversations in Spanish Italian and English. Curious fellow students and researchers stopped by to experience what we were capturing. we can see all of England some of Wales but Scotland and Northern Ireland were covered by a cloud_static_nebulous_void we can see where all 3 of us were born!

2025-05-01 11:20:00

first time recording weather images sunny day in london amazing teachers, sensitive knowledge, embodied physics

2025-05-01 11:23:00

Prajvi, Lene, Ravza

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London

Lewisham, London

Recording taken by Ravza, Lene, and Prajvi. Lene holding the antenna. 22, mostly cloudy

2025-05-01 11:31:45

James, Fer, Paola

Goldsmiths University Greens, United Kingdom

Sunny and clear, occasional fine clouds. Faulty hardware.

2025-05-01 11:23:00

Prajvi, Lene, Ravza

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London

Lewisham, London

Recording taken by Ravza, Lene, and Prajvi. Lene holding the antenna. 22, mostly cloudy

2025-05-01 11:18:19

Sasha Milonova & Julia Nueno

London - Goldsmiths, United Kingdom

it's the hottest labour day that we have on record it was our first time capturing satellite images in our image we can see sunny London and cloudy Madrid

2025-05-01 11:26:00

tally, ayesha, ayşe

tally: "it is a very hot day in london. my min is blow by this "citizen science"." ayesha: "it is hot, we see italy, climate crisis is in the blood" Ayşe:"the screen is blinded by the sun, I sweat the sun, the grass is greener under the sun, and the climate crisis is disproportional to justice"

2025-05-01 11:15:48

Laura, Aya & Tom

College Green, Goldsmiths, New Cross, United Kingdom

The hottest May 1st the UK has ever had at 28 degrees celsius

2025-05-01 11:23:00

Prajvi Mandhani

Goldsmiths College Green, Lewisham, London

Lewisham, London

Recording taken by Ravza, Lene, and Prajvi. Lene holding the antenna. 22, mostly cloudy

2025-05-01 11:21:38

Manu Sancho, Omar Ferwati

Goldsmiths University, London, UK

It was a very sunny day in London, it was 28º

2025-05-01 11:20:01

Bernal Pérez, Florence To, Laura Palmer, David Birkin, Debora Swistun

College Green, Goldsmiths University, London, United Kingdom

The weather was summy, clear, 27 degrees celcius. Capturing the waves started with white noise then eevntually after 5 minutes it became clear and sharp. Image captured from 11:18 - 11:26. It was a collective exercise with open weather community at Goldsmiths Univerity in the green.

2025-05-01 13:02:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-05-01 08:15:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-30 23:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-30 23:04:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-30 23:05:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-30 19:43:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-30 11:56:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-29 23:20:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-30 07:53:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-30 06:08:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-29 21:50:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-29 19:27:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-29 08:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-29 11:46:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-29 11:43:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-28 22:17:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-28 19:19:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-28 20:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-29 06:32:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-28 21:49:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-28 12:30:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-28 22:02:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-28 22:46:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-28 12:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-28 09:11:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-27 11:03:55

Steve Engelmann

Pacific Palisades, California, United States

On January 7th I captured a satellite pass in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. The winds were wild and within an hour of the pass the Palisades Fire had started. Today I returned to the same location almost 4 months later. The wind was gentle. It was cool as a light storm had passed the day before. In the distance there was the constant beeping of trucks backing up and the rattle of jackhammers. While the Palisades suburbs were a long way from recovery, the natural landscape seemed rejuvenated. This is a fire-climax biome. The tops of the shrubs (chamise, laurel sumac, coyote bush, and elderberry) were blackened, but from the base sprouted eager green shoots from the living roots. Many young wildflowers were present (mariposa lily, blue dicks, california brittlebush, bird's-foot trefoil and invasive black mustard). In my view, however, the clear winner is the wild cucumber. Early after the first rains, the cucumber took advantage of the lack of competition. Blackened hillsides turned green (and white flowers) as the vines stretched out in all directions. Many cucumber fruits are already the size of baseballs.

2025-04-27 08:24:59

Steve Engelmann

Santa Monica Pier, United States

A typical April morning at the Santa Monica pier. A gentle breeze with a high of 16°C. A group of about 20 people gathered near me as I captured the satellite pass. They all wore a paper number pinned to their shirt. My guess is that there was some kind charity run/jog with the pier as the end point.

2025-04-27 19:45:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-27 22:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-28 06:57:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-27 22:02:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-27 12:43:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-27 19:21:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-27 12:24:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-27 10:52:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-26 22:14:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-26 22:14:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-26 23:11:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-26 12:37:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-26 08:27:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-26 18:53:00

Oppressive Heat Project

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2025-04-26 11:05:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-25 20:10:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-25 22:42:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-25 12:38:47

Sasha Engelmann

Between Queens and Schilling Buildings, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

The morning is balmy and bright, but my university office feels far too cold. I layer with a grey wool jumper that I keep in my office for such days. Whereas my east-facing windows receive piercing sun during the winter, the dense foliage of the oak trees in the small grassy field outside the department keep most light out of my office in spring and summer. It feels like I am the only member of staff in today, everyone is sheltering from the start of Term 3 at home. I buy myself a hot chocolate with whipped cream in the afternoon as consolation! This morning, T plays a video of a Spanish senator who is a trans woman, standing up and admonishing the senate for their attack on trans lives. She says ‘you insert yourself in every part of our lives!’ Then she lists all the invasive questions and topics asked by transphobes including ‘Do trans people orgasm?’ ‘Enough!!’ She bellows to the whole senate who applaud. Meanwhile in the U.K., Kier Starmer is ‘pleased’ that ‘we finally have clarity’ on the definition of a woman.

2025-04-25 11:03:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-25 19:31:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-25 12:39:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-25 12:35:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-25 10:55:27

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Calm, cool conditions were conducive to a clear and crisp recording, marred only by my perennial foe during recent efforts - software glitches, cutting out the audio! I had a chance to reflect at a conference yesterday on the nature of these sensory undertakings, the registers and durations that they speak to. Glitches themselves manifest across multiple durations, and begin to inscribe their marks long before they become apparent on recorded media. The deep, granular hardware incompatibilities that will forever prevent this computer from generating a clear image were established several years ago, when it was first built, and will now be registered in this archive for as long as it is sustained. There's something pleasing about this - a sense of material traces across time that the usual quest for the perfect image (the perfect sensory recording) would otherwise strive to eliminate. There are long histories of Western onto-epistemic-political imperatives at work here, and these are now manifest in the technologies and techniques that delivered the signal processing behind our digital world - along with its surrounding marking rhetoric of perfect reproduction, and seamless, immaterial operation. The computing of angels. All this observed - I am presently dredging up an unusably 'glitched' computer that, nevertheless, once gave vastly better recordings than the more modern machine used here. I hope it might deliver a clearer image for the next pass, in 30 minutes time!

2025-04-24 22:55:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-24 11:19:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-24 11:15:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-24 09:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-24 09:12:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-24 10:41:00

Prajvi Mandhani

Noida, India , India

full bright sun and a slight wind. I went up to the terrace of my building to the 25th floor. I was impatient as my sweat trickled down my forehead. Its hot. trying to remember that there is still water in this atmosphere, no matter how dry today feels. India just suspended the Indus Valley Treaty that comprises of sharing river, Indus, and five bank tributaries, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Jhelum, and Chenab with Pakistan after a brutal terrorist attack in Kashmir. The land bleeds, the water is forced to stop. Is justice revenge or is justice freedom of the land, freedom of the water, freedom of the indigenous communities. Thinking of this strange weather swept across India, dark storms leaking into language.

2025-04-23 22:51:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-23 19:25:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-23 23:08:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-23 19:26:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-23 19:26:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-22 19:52:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-22 22:20:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-22 11:44:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-22 08:31:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-22 11:31:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-22 10:51:00

Bekes , Hungary

2025-04-22 11:59:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-22 08:03:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-21 20:15:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-21 23:20:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-21 21:50:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-21 22:37:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-21 11:56:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-21 19:36:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-21 11:43:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-21 11:23:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club MIT WPU

2025-04-20 23:32:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-20 23:33:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-20 21:50:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-20 22:03:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-20 12:09:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

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