Tomorrow is Red Nose Day day in the UK, where huge numbers of us engage in activities we perhaps normally wouldn’t. In the evening we sit down to watch Comic Relief strike that difficult balance between entertainment, fundraising and awareness-raising. Comic Relief describes #rednoseday as uniting 'the entire nation in trying to make a difference to the lives of thousands of people across Africa and the UK who are facing terrible injustice or living in desperate poverty’. But

On Friday, Planet launched Planet Explorer Beta, an online tool that allows users to browse geospatial data through time and track changes across the globe. The introduction of a time axis is of great importance and it is being aptly marketed as ‘your planetary time machine’ – ‘ours’ because it is free for personal and non-profit use*. Planet, who recently acquired Google’s Terra Bella satellite imaging business, has the largest fleet of satellites in human history and its co