Today, James and I were driving down Hwy 75 towards Uptown to clean up our old apartment after our big move this weekend. All of a sudden, I said “James, what is that?” and pointed to the sky. It was some fireball in the sky streaming down faster than I’ve ever seen – too big for a firework and too small for an airplane but we were literally driving and watching this “thing” light up the day time sky (it was right before 11:00am CST on Sunday). I immediately called my Dad to tell him what we witnessed. Was it an airplane that exploded (Dallas Love and DFW are both in the vicinity of where we were) or was it a meteorite during the day? We had no idea. I then told James, maybe it was pieces of the satellites that crashed earlier this week but then we dismissed that because we thought we had read that the debris from the Russian and US satellites would be in orbit for “thousands” of years.

Well, now it’s 5pm and it looks like tons of Texans saw what we witnessed. Thank God. And according to the FAA, it does appear to be a satellite debris of some kind. They have NOT confirmed which satellite it is, but it has to be the Russian and US communications satellites that crashed, right?

So glad to know what we witnessed is now caught on tape. Here’s a video of someone taping a marathon in Austin, TX and you can see the bright flash – their view was NOTHING like ours – it literally seemed to happen right in front of our car. Insane.

Hurricane Ike obviously turned out to be a monster for most of Texas, particularly Galveston and Houston.

But I found this image on Space.com and I thought to myself, “Wow.” Here you go:

So I was watching Tekzilla’s latest podcast last night and the host, Patrick Norton, brought up a website that immediately caught my interest. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a weather geek and LOVE satellite pictures, radar pictures, etc.

So with that said, I want to share with you a new application I just purchased. EarthDesk is a real time desktop application that shows the earth in real-time. As the creator of EarthDesk states, “EarthDesk replaces your Macintosh desktop picture or Windows wallpaper with a stunning dynamic image of our planet continuously updating in the background while you work.”

What this includes is real-time satellite pictures of the earth in all of its glory. You can see where the moon is currently shining, where there’s daylight and you can have it update within one minute so you can track the sun’s rays (in real satellite images) as it goes across the horizon. It’s simply amazing.

There are a lot of other really cool settings with this application, but you can read all of them at the company’s website which is here.