On Feb 10, 12:15 am, Weatherlawyer  wrote:
>
> This seems to illustrate what I mean, though the clouds are hardly sea level:
>  http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/cmoll/cmoll.html

Not for dial-up and even with BB it may take a minute to load.

Use the stop and back buttons to locate the dates 4th and 5th
February.

Notice that satellite coverage of the longitude 130 to 155 East was or
were out of service temporarily.
They or it were probably being moved to service something, the shuttle
maybe or to see more clearly, events around 110 East?

Anyone have an inkling?

They also get a boost to their orbits to compensate for mascons. Maybe
coverage was switched off around the time of this:
6.3 M. 	2008/02/04 17:01:30 TARAPACA, CHILE (The timing is perfect but
I doubt that it was the reason. Though coverage for the northern
reaches was restored PDQ.)

The region over southern Australia was out until12:00 on the 5th. Was
there anything like it for the 6.9 a few days later?

Yes.
And no.
Coverage was a little ropey from the 4th on and the whole longitude is
out again as of midnight this morning, as I write.

I haven't been following events with the shuttle; anyone here?