NASA BlueMarble: Next Generation 168
gbnewby writes "Remember the NASA Blue Marble composite image of earth from space, completely cloud free? Today a whole new series was released showing earth scenes from cloudless days across all 12 months of 2004. These beautiful images come in many different resolutions and formats. NASA even provided some animations. We and others have set up web, ftp and rsync mirrors; let the Torrents begin!"
Celestia (Score:5, Informative)
mirror (Score:4, Informative)
Tip for browsers -- RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS (Score:4, Informative)
The files are huge and may be Slashdotted soon as well.
Clarification, or what CELESTIA actually is (Score:5, Informative)
It runs on all platforms including my favourite, Linux.
"Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects."
NASA World Wind (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Image size limits? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Tip for browsers -- RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS (Score:4, Informative)
In the meantime, http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/blue_ma
EarthSLOT (Score:5, Informative)
fly-over navigation programs that can use these images. One
with a tie to the U. Alaska is EarthSLOT [earthslot.org].
The mirror links include an "earthslot" subdirectory, where
ready-made flyover files are available. Unfortunately,
EarthSLOT is Windows-centric
Re:Impressive... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Photoshop capable? (Score:5, Informative)
We (3D Nature) packaged up the old BlueMarble data, along with 1Km terrain data for the whole earth (GTOPO30) on a product called Ultimate Earth [3dnature.com] for our landscape visualization software, Visual Nature Studio [3dnature.com]. It's pretty cool to be able to pull up an area, add your own data to what we provide, and have a ready-made planet visualization.
Re:EarthSLOT (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Image size limits? (Score:3, Informative)
Jim Williams
TFW file for Blue Marble Next Generation (Score:4, Informative)
0.00416666666666
0.00000000000000
0.00000000000000
-0.00416666666666
-180.00000000000000
90.00000000000000
I've got a bundle of these from the last Blue Marble at this page [rahga.com].
I do work for Mud Springs Geographers [mudsprings.com], which have an app called AWhere that support loading this sort of image as a map layer. I'm not into crass commercialism, but unfortunately, Slashdot won't let me post just that TFW because of the lameness filter. You'd think they would make excpetions for anciend user ids or excellent karma, but no.....
(Okay, I've removed the whitespace from the snippet above, but keep in mind that most TFW files have the decimal point positioned 20 spaces from the left edge.)
Torrents (Score:3, Informative)
Anyway, thanks for making this available and for all the bandwidth :)
Blue Marble NG in World Wind (Score:2, Informative)
KMZ for boring people using boring app ;) (Score:2, Informative)