Two Views to Earth

We live in the future. As proof, I present two new services: UrtheCast, and Skybox. Both are cameras in space pointed down at Earth that provide high-resolution nearly-lie views -- including video -- of our fair planet. UrtheCast was launched into space in November 2013. It consists of two cameras mounted on the outside of the International Space Station -- yesterday (Dec. 27) two Russian astronauts performed an EVA to install them, but unhappily there was a problem, and no telemetry was rece...