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this again was footage just captured

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about an hour ago as the international

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space station was traveling overhead

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about 230 miles above the ocean

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the cameras mounted on the exterior were

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able to capture these views of the

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i'm still stationed on two for merlin

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yeah i'm uh

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in the apm look in 0.5 c tv i'm in the

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gather section yet

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looking for in a 12 16 for a glacier

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tray there's nothing in here of that

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description

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i've looked throughout the volume this

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entire rack volume and it's done in this

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location a description of what we're

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looking for and other ideas would be

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we copied standby

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in this view you can see we're just

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baja peninsula just going out of view on

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the left-hand side and the ground track

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will be taking us just over guadalajara

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continuing northeasterly

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and to the lower right is acapulco

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joining us here on the console again is

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dr justin wilkinson who is part of the

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jsc

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earth observations team he is the

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principal geoscientist

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thank you so much for joining us again

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you're welcome thank you for having me

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it's great to have your expertise uh you

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of course are part of a small team that

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specializes in

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not only how to view the earth from

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space uh but also how to train the

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astronauts on how to view and make

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certain distinctions we talked

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previously about how to even distinguish

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smoke from clouds maybe you can talk to

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us a little bit about those types of

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things and the practical matters that

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you instruct astronauts on

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sure we we handle uh geography and

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geology but we also think about the

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atmosphere quite a bit

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dust are the things that we think about

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in particular for the atmosphere

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clouds

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are

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easy to spot once you get used to it

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because they have a sharp edge to them

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mostly and they're usually bright white

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everything else kind of

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is is duller and and has a much

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fuzzier aspect to it and so you can

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actually see smoke coming into the view

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right now clouds top left but smoke

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coming into the view on the right of the

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picture where you're kind of losing a

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lot of the sense of focus

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a lot of the detail on the ground

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on the right side of the view in the

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foreground there are dry

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salty valleys where you can see sharp

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definition but top right coming in there

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is that loss of definition that we

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associate with big smoke poles you often

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can't see where the smoke is coming from

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but almost for sure that is

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smoke

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from texas and probably from fires in

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northern mexico as well

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yeah we've heard about the smoke

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becoming a growing concern in fact i

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heard today some of the schools that are

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closed just due to the smoke coverage in

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i hadn't heard about school closings but

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i looked at a map this morning that

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showed that rather than than individual

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fires you see huge amounts of smoke so i

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mean the the smoke effect hundreds of

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miles from the source

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is starting to be really felt um

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especially around big cities where

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people who are

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who have lung complaints are being

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the vehicle is still traveling over

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mexico but i believe parts of texas are

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coming into view i was a

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kind of stunned the other day to hear

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mike mention that they were flying over

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chicago but they could still look back

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in the middle of the view is the city of

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austin you can't quite see it it's on

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the edge of the the dark line there

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and the bastrop fire is right next to it

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which is apparently 90 percent

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controlled so that you can't really see

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very much of the fire itself anymore but

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a bit to the right of that is a big

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diffuse mass which is uh where the fires

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are north of houston and in east texas

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that smoke is is proceeding out to the

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south and you can see smoke going across

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the coastline at the bottom of the

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coming into the middle of the picture

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right now is another uh patch of white

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and uh that i believe is the biggest

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fire up in northeast texas and houston

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stationed mike and oran from the cupola

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as you can see the uh the fires are

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we are watching mike thanks

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once again

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unfortunately it doesn't look like uh

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no rain clouds near in this entire state

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and all the clouds we have looked like

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they're a smoke

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the line crossing the center of the view

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is the red river and the patch of white

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that combination of fires in northeast

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texas

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coming in the top of the view is is

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cloud and the uh the wide

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valley of the mississippi

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um kind of stretched diagonally across

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yeah we could see the the area actually

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you could see the burned area around the

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uh this is an oblique view that we're

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looking at at the moment on the screen

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but uh the astronaut is obviously

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looking straight beneath him because the

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pass is taking them right just east of

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texas

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for training purposes starting to moving

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gabby satoshi and we're watching thanks

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dr wilkinson i'm curious

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of this imagery is this being used by

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researchers as well we know that we've

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making it available to the public and

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media and certainly mike's been watching

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but is this type of uh imagery also

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being re used by researchers or

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state workers it could certainly be we

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have actually used uh fire pictures of

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the earth to count fires globally so

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views like this

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are certainly useful scientifically i

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don't know whether these will be in

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particular but they certainly could be

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there are lots of sources of information

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on fires but these could certainly be

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in observations like uh mike reporting

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that he could even see the detail of

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and the space station continuing on a

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northeasterly track it's now just passed

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over arkansas and continuing on a track

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that will take it over

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it's approaching uh louisville and

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cincinnati

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so portions of texas out of view as far

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as this camera view but again another

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pass right over the state of texas and

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in this case directly above some of the

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bastrop area which has been one of the

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most highlighted areas an extensive site

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for

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the wildfires occurring in texas

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again thank you for joining us dr

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wilkinson we really appreciate your

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expertise and we'll continue to monitor

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these passes we know that your team is

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helping to identify these in advance for

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the crew and for researchers thank you