Vitaliy Egorov
Виталий Егоров (Vitaliy Egorov) is a journalist, enthusiast and popular writer about space research. He is the founder of the largest community devoted to MSL Curiosity on Vkontakte (Russian Facebook). He participates on unmannedspaceflight.com as Zelenyikot.
Latest Blog Posts
On space kindness and the Chelyabinsk meteor
Posted 2013/10/04 07:04 CDT | 1 comments
Through an act of kindness, we now have images of the Chelyabinsk meteor trail from Russia's Elektro-L satellite.
Beautiful science by Elektro-L
Posted 2013/08/08 03:54 CDT | 5 comments
Six months ago, I wrote about the Russian weather satellite Elektro-L, which has more than two years of successful experience in the geostationary orbit. Then I promised that I would be here to share the materials that we collected. I think it's time to deliver on the promise.
Latest Processed Space Images

Posted 2013/10/04 | 0 comments
The Russian Elektro-L weather satellite captured this view of the Chelyabinsk meteorite passing through Earth's atmosphere on February 15, 2013.

Animation of Earth from Russia's Elektro-L satellite
Posted 2013/10/04 | 0 comments
This animation, comprised of images taken by the Russian Elektro-L weather satellite from a geostationary orbit at a distance of 36,000 km, shows the changing illumination of Earth as it rotated on the autumnal equinox.

Elektro-L view of the Chelyabinsk meteor trail
Posted 2013/10/04 | 0 comments
The Russian Elektro-L weather satellite captured this view of the trail of the Chelyabinsk meteor as it passed through the atmosphere (visible in the upper left of the frame) on February 15, 2013.
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