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)
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."
Re:Clarification, or what CELESTIA actually is (Score:5, Funny)
How are you supposed to play this?
Re:Clarification, or what CELESTIA actually is (Score:2)
Re:Clarification, or what CELESTIA actually is (Score:2)
Re:Clarification, or what CELESTIA actually is (Score:2)
body.cpp:575: instantiated from here
ya but does it plug into google maps? (Score:2, Interesting)
I hope... (Score:2)
Lots more bandwidth (Score:2)
this story is already a little old)
Please visit http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/ [alaska.edu] for
much faster download links (we redirected the
traffic to a far fatter 'net pipe). Apologies to
people who have been trying to get the data, but
found the bandwidth insufficient. Greg
mirror (Score:4, Informative)
Re:mirror (Score:1)
Another mirror (Score:1)
here [rapidcityjournal.com]
Had to do it
The best troll song ever! (Score:1, Funny)
"The problem's all inside your head", she said to me
The crap filter is annoying, I agree
You can defeat it if you do it logically
There must be fifty ways to troll on Slashdot
She said it's not really my habit to intrude
The sensationalist titles are often misconstrued
The editors' spelling may be somewhat crude
There must be fifty ways to troll on Slashdot
Fifty ways to troll on Slashdot
Mods are on crack, Jack
Repost spam, Sam
GNAA, Ray
Just set yoursel
Please don't use vulgarities on the site (Score:1, Offtopic)
I browse while at work and would appreciate if I didn't have to view cursing and potty-talk on a web site for science/engineering professionals.
Re:Please don't use vulgarities on the site (Score:1)
Re:The best troll song ever! (Score:2)
Bravo!
Earth First (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot Saturn [nasa.gov] later!
Tip for browsers -- RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS (Score:4, Informative)
The files are huge and may be Slashdotted soon as well.
Re:Tip for browsers -- RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS (Score:4, Informative)
In the meantime, http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/blue_ma
Re:Tip for browsers -- RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS (Score:2)
web-resolution images (Score:2)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMar
Re:Tip for browsers -- RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS (Score:2)
If other people had that experience, that might have overloaded the direct download attempts.
Re:Tip for browsers -- RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS (Score:2, Funny)
Right click save as. Pfft.
Nice pictures (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Nice pictures (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Nice pictures (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nice pictures (Score:2)
Re:Nice pictures (Score:2)
Re:Nice pictures (Score:2)
The introductory paragraph [nasa.gov] says the movies are "a visualization of the dataset [] derived from imagery."
Re:Nice pictures (Score:2)
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=
Re:Nice pictures (Score:2)
Re:That's an original Blue Marble image (Score:2)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMar
mirror with my modem (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry but I'm COOLER THAN YOU (Score:4, Funny)
So ha!
Re:mirror with my modem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:mirror with my modem (Score:5, Funny)
Re:mirror with my modem (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah same, and whaddaya know - the guy has the same 'tastes' as me! What are the chances of that?
Re:mirror with my modem (Score:2)
Re:mirror with my modem (Score:2)
Image size limits? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Image size limits? (Score:4, Funny)
The file name is world.200412.3x86400x43200.bin.gz
Clearly they went with the bin format
Re:Image size limits? (Score:2)
Re:Image size limits? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Image size limits? (Score:4, Interesting)
Pretty raw, eh?
Re:Image size limits? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Image size limits? (Score:2)
Re:Image size limits? (Score:3, Funny)
NASA World Wind (Score:5, Informative)
Re:NASA World Wind (Score:1)
how very appropriate... (Score:1, Funny)
Impressive... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Impressive... (Score:4, Informative)
Torrents (Score:3, Informative)
Anyway, thanks for making this available and for all the bandwidth :)
Another mirror (Score:2)
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:EarthSLOT (Score:1, Informative)
Torrent toast? (Score:2)
Pull the ftp and http access to the actual files, and leave just the torrents and tracker -- make people HELP you distribute the data, not just plow your server into a smoking heap hot enough to melt any nearby glaciers.
http://geotorrent.org/ [geotorrent.org] would probably be a good cohort too.
Re:Torrent toast? (Score:2)
Re:Torrent toast? (Score:2)
Oblig. Karma Whore (Score:3)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov.nyud.net:8090/Ne
next generation... (Score:1, Redundant)
Mirros?
Pretty... (Score:1)
Re:Pretty... (Score:2)
Well, Moon rocks -- but I know what you mean.
Photoshop capable? (Score:2)
I'd love to wallpaper my office with this image (I have a large 40"x50" version of an earlier 20k x 20k image currently) and would like to do all my adjustments on the original 500m file, then tile it to my
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:Photoshop capable? (Score:2)
3 more hours until the file is finished downloading for me, I'll post here to let folks know if it works
Re:Photoshop capable? (Score:2)
The max memory Photoshop CS2 can address is 3GB, so even on my 6GB image editing system it is pretty swap-disk intensive. Reminds me of doing print work back in 1993
Obligatory POV-RAY (Score:2, Interesting)
#include "textures.inc"
camera {location 8 look_at 0}
light_source { -50 color rgb 1 }
light_source { 50 color rgb 1 }
sphere
{ 0, 4.5 pigment {image_map {
jpeg "world.topo.bathy.200405.3x5400x2700.jpg"
map_type 1 interpolate 2 } }
finish {ambient 0.4 diffuse 1 specular 0} }
sphere {
0,1 texture { Starfield sca
Re:Obligatory POV-RAY (Score:2)
Re:Obligatory POV-RAY (Score:2)
Ah, the memories.
Back around 98 or 99, I used POV-Ray and image maps from NASA, etc, similar to Blue Marble and sticker stock to print up realistic-looking planets and some of the larger moons for my son's bedroom wall (they're still up too). At the time, I couldn't find a good enough and high-resolution enough image of Earth (of all places). A year o
Video cards (Score:2)
put that in google maps:-D (Score:2)
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.)
Blue Marble NG in World Wind (Score:2, Informative)
KMZ for boring people using boring app ;) (Score:2, Informative)
Soviet Union economy (Score:2)
The common answer is "communism is evil" or "planned economy is inefficient", but I suggest you look at the above image and find the Soviet Union there. Can you guess what substance the whole territory of the USSR is covered with? Hint: it's white, cold and tasteless.
Yep, you probably guessed right, even if you rarely see it in your country. Because you are so forunate to
Re:Soviet Union economy (Score:2)
And while you are right that high-tech is less infl
Re:Soviet Union economy (Score:2)
The rumour has it that it used to be before colonialism. May be if +100 million of Africans weren't tossed into the Atlantic ocean by certain people, Africa would actually be a little bit better off today.
Actually a theory is that a colder less hospitible climate helps spur innovation and creativity.
In the past - possibly. But not today. Russian people are indeed considered very creative, but obvious
Re:Soviet Union economy (Score:2)
Cuba isn't rich, but its people are well-fed, healthy, live long and have quality free education (not to mention other perks coming from living in a socialist state). And North Korea would fare much better if the US was not constantly threatening it (it isn't easy to protect itself from a global superpower all by itself).
And
Re:Soviet Union economy (Score:2)
Re:Soviet Union economy (Score:2)
Well, I would really appreciate if those Czechs, Poles and Hungarians who disagree provide some actual specific facts. What resources or products were extracted from those countries and send to the Soviet Union for free or at artificially low prices? As far as I am aware, there are no such examples and
Re:Soviet Union economy (Score:2)
Blue Marble images with real-time clouds (Score:2)
Calculated every handful of minutes with cloud cover updated eight times a day, all thanks to the power of Xplanet [sourceforge.net]. The daylight background map is now the Blue Marble monthly map [nasa.gov]. The current one is automatically rotated in place the first day of each month... Enjoy the realistic seasonal snow cover and the changing vegetation !
Two resolutions are available :
800x600 - http://www.ruwenzori.net/earth/earth800.html [ruwenzori.net]
1280x1024 - http://www.ruwenzori.net/earth/earth1280.html [ruwenzori.net]
BitTorrents available (Score:2)
Meanwhile, we finally have BitTorrent trackers [alaska.edu] available.
If you have a big network pipe (OC3 or better) and would like a backdoor way to download the data more quickly (or would like me to push the collection to you), drop me a note. It would be good to get the whole collection out for mirroring, and although many people have retrieved files
Lots more bandwidth (Score:2)
much faster download links (we redirected the
traffic to a far fatter 'net pipe). Apologies to
people who have been trying to get the data, but
found the bandwidth insufficient. Greg
Re:I'd like to send this (Score:2)
I personally have always found multi-gigabyte emails kinda annoying.
Re:I'd like to send this (Score:2)
Re:I'd like to send this (Score:2)
The moderators are correct: these people do no need, nay, do not care about the whole "you are here" thing.
Re:I'd like to send this (Score:1)
Re:I'd like to send this (Score:1)
didnt you kids listen in school?
the world is FLAT!!!
everything else is pure evil and those images are made right by the devil!!
Re:I'd like to send this (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'd like to send this (Score:2)
Re:DMB seems somewhat appropriate (Score:1)
Re:DMB seems somewhat appropriate (Score:1)
Dave Matthews Band because... (Score:1)
Riiiiiiight.
Re:DMB seems somewhat appropriate (Score:2)
Re:NASA Linux (Score:2, Funny)
Let see
5% > 1%
50% > 1%
99% > 15
Works for me.
If > and confuse you just remember:
the alligator is hungry so the mouth opens towards the bigger meal.
Re:Deforestation?!?! (Score:2)
kilometer is pretty damn large, let alone 8x8 km. In many places
cutting is done in patchwork for one reason or another.
http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/07/googl e_maps_/ [mezzoblue.com]
http://perljam.net/google-satellite-maps/id/1201/B razil/Rondonia//Deforestation_in_Brazil/ [perljam.net]
There are others but feel free to do your own due diligence.
Re:this photo is depressing! (Score:2)
Re:Tracker refuses (Score:2)