Get your space face on for the Satellite Selfie

Canberrans and Northern Territorians are being encouraged to beam a message to Australia and the globe via space for the world's largest ever Satellite Selfie. As part of National Science Week, and the Where You Are Festival presented by RISE Canberra and supported by the ACT Government, the National Science Week committee and The Australian National University (ANU) have organised for a satellite flyover in mid-August. The satellite will capture images from 770km above the Earth, creating a time capsule of the ACT, its surrounds and the Northern Territory. ANU astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker said the images would form the "ultimate, out of this world, selfie". "Nothing to this scale and this many people has ever been tried before in the world, let alone Australia," Dr Tucker said. "Today's satellites are used for all sorts of things - from tracking bushfires to sending communications around the globe to exploring the darkest regions of space and even helping you buy milk. "Now we are going to use one to take a massive selfie that shows what Canberra, its surrounds and the NT looked like in August 2020.