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Be a SkyTruther! Follow Your Favorite Places in Google Maps/Earth

March 1, 2011/in SkyTruthing /by John Amos

The folks at Google have released a great new tool called Follow Your World. Now you can sign up to get email alerts whenever they update the imagery in Google Maps and Google Earth covering your areas of interest. Using a simple interactive map interface, you can select and register points of interest: I’m hoping […]

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Monday’s Planned Balloon Launch a No-Go.

February 23, 2011/in SkyTruthing, Watchdog /by Teri Biebel

It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature. We had hoped to have a successful test-launch of our balloon on the Shepherd University campus on Monday afternoon. Unfortunately, we were grounded by gusty winds which preceded the storm we had on Tuesday. Not to be discouraged, we retreated to Mellow Moods to plot our strategy […]