Hi-Quality Pics d'Earth

nebagakidnebagakid
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Hey, where are those really high quliaty pictures of earth, there are some at day and some at night, showing all the lights around the world...where are they? they are from NASA i think, but I am having a hard time finding them. they come in different formats and sizes....



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  • Reply 1 of 10
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Two places:



    <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html"; target="_blank">http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html</a>;



    <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_index.php3"; target="_blank">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_index.php3</a>;



    Here is Earth by night:



    <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020810.html"; target="_blank">http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020810.html</a>;



    and Earth in its true colors:



    <a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020305.html"; target="_blank">http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020305.html</a>;



    [ 03-02-2003: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
  • Reply 2 of 10
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    WOW!!! so many of those images on those links are (*&^^$%%#ing AWESOME!!!!!!



    THey make us seem like stupid insignificant NOTHINGS!!!

    I MEAN NOTHING!!!! (well . . . . at least really small)

    which actually feels kinda good
  • Reply 3 of 10
    alex londonalex london Posts: 613member
    Thanks BuonRotto, my desktop pictures have improved immeasurably. Pflam , we always were pretty irrelevant in the scheme of things, though it is nice to see the true colour picture of the earth and see so much green surviving our presence.
  • Reply 4 of 10
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    man, those links are timing out for me! <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 5 of 10
    artman @_@artman @_@ Posts: 2,546member
    When I went to see a friend in Allentown (yeah, I know....why did I go to Allentown?) he had the NASA Channel. They had a 24-7 feed of a satellite video of the Earth....we sat and watched for hours....... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 6 of 10
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    [quote]Originally posted by Nebagakid:

    <strong>man, those links are timing out for me! <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yeah, the sites seem to be rather fickle. Some times they load in a flash, others they're unreachable. I just tried it, and they're working fine again. They must have very small bandwidth for those servers or something.
  • Reply 7 of 10
    _ alliance __ alliance _ Posts: 2,070member
    [quote]Originally posted by Artman @_@:

    <strong>When I went to see a friend in Allentown (yeah, I know....why did I go to Allentown?) he had the NASA Channel. They had a 24-7 feed of a satellite video of the Earth....we sat and watched for hours....... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>





    yeah, we have that channel on campus cable. i love when they just have feed showing earth. it's great to zone out and have a beer or two watchin the earth spin. but now, we dont seem to have the same opportunity...



    oh well...
  • Reply 8 of 10
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    The images of the earth (night/day) specifically were part of the Blue Marble project. The URL is here...



    <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/"; target="_blank">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/</a>;



    They have a lot of other images as well. Good stuff.
  • Reply 9 of 10
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    [quote]Originally posted by Artman @_@:

    <strong>When I went to see a friend in Allentown (yeah, I know....why did I go to Allentown?) he had the NASA Channel. They had a 24-7 feed of a satellite video of the Earth....we sat and watched for hours....... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>That musta bin 'good stuff'
  • Reply 10 of 10
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    NASA TV was always my favourite channel (when cable here carried it)... video of sunsets/sunrises over earthlimb...



    &lt;odd trivia: Al Gore's proposed 24hr_Earth_Observation_TV_Satellite, Triana, would have been launched on STS-107 (Columbia)&gt;



    webcasts of NASA TV are now my only source.

    Point your realplayer to the Houston Chronicle's 34kb stream.

    chron.com's "space chronicle" section also has links to ISS crew Audio.



    pnm://media.chron.com:7080/nasa/nasatv.live.rm



    enjoy the view from above
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