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There are some crazy lightning storms over China in the live video feed at the moment. Very cool.

One thing I would change is to change the yellow dot to an actual image of the ISS. It would also be cool to be able to zoom in a little bit more (and maybe use some higher resolution images of the globe).

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It did originally have a little model of the ISS actually but I ran into some issues with the model loader - going to try and reinstate that feature

Looking at your real-time cloud rendering, have you considered trying to interpolate between the images provided every 3 hours by EUMETSAT? I have tried this using images from DISCOVR but I'm not totally happy with the result. I wonder if you or anyone else might have some ideas to get more realistic movement between the clouds inbetween each 3 hour interval?

https://github.com/alexspurling/earthflow

I've wanted to do it but didn't really know where to start, so I'm very interested to hear if anyone has any pointers. I'll have a look at your project too

That makes me think: adding a live lighting map / lightning locations would be neat, since that is the kind of thing you can see from the video feed.

There's a couple crowdsourced lighting status websites out there, might be possible to use the same data feed...

That's a brilliant idea - looks like https://www.blitzortung.org allows their data to be used in non commercial projects so I'll look into that

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