Most detailed pictures of Earth ever seen.
A friend sent this article with pics too me and I just had to share with all. The title says it all!
Just located the actual NASA page titled THE BLUE MARBLE. See these pics in great detail by clicking on the 2048x2048 .jpg's on this page. Unbelievable detail!
Enjoy... :)
Thanks for the link, BigThunder, those images are amazing. Even after spending four years on an aircraft carrier, it still blows my mind to see how much of this planet is covered with water. Now I have some new pictures for my wallpaper folder.
Thanks BigThunder1 for the link. I have a Hubble snapshot of Mars at its closest position to the Earth as my wallpaper. Thats why I wanted to hide the desktop icons!
My son is stationed in S Korea and if the it was alittle brighter over there in this pic, oh well I'll wait on the next pass.
Thanks for serving headman. We appreciate what everyone in any service does for the rest.
Thanks BigThunder1 these are incredible, and they are excellent graphic making stuff (non commercial of course don't flame me anyone),I've put this site in my custom link bar, well worth spending a bit-o-time there everyday.
All are very welcome! Thanks for the comments.
To all military members globally, past and present; "Semper Fi". (Been there myself.)
@ nanook:
No one will flame you here. These pics are available for private use with stated credit to NASA and the Visible Earth team.
From NASA's site: (for those in question)
General Terms of Use Information
With the exception of images produced by the SeaWiFS, QuickBird, and IKONOS instruments all images on the Visible Earth are governed by NASA's Terms of Use below.
NASA Terms of Use
For all non-private uses, NASA's Terms Of Use are as follows:
1. The imagery is free of licensing fees
2. NASA requires that they be provided a credit as the owners of the imagery
Visible Earth Addendum
Beyond the NASA Terms, the Visible Earth team requests, but does not require:
1. The Visible Earth be provided a credit as the location that the imagery was found at
2. A URL be provided, either to the Visible Earth (http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/) or to the page providing the link to the used image.
I'm glad NASA is saying that they are license free as it should be. If they want a license fee for images, being a US taxpayer I want my cut! LOL
Glad you like this little forum nanook. Even though its not quite as big as others, it is kind of fun and some really great people come here.
Very nice find, BigThunder1.
I'm thinking of sharing some optimized and resized versions of these images (There's a 54px black border on each side that I find is kinda redundant). If anyone's interested, let me know.
I'm glad NASA is saying that they are license free as it should be. If they want a license fee for images, being a US taxpayer I want my cut!
I understand this was a joke, but being a taxpayer has nothing to do with it. Images often are licensed or sold.
What beautiful pictures - thanks for posting BigThunder1! When I was a kid, we lived in Titusville, Florida for a while. The whole town was employed by NASA. I got to watch Apollo 17 go up from my backyard. It was the only night launch of an Apollo and we were seven miles from ground zero. The house shook and the sky lit up almost like dawn. I was only 14, but it has remained one of the most memorable sights of my life.....and these pictures brought it all back.
nanook - i don't think you are the only one playing with the pics! Anybody into creating CG would find it hard to resist (myself included).
hamstergirl
Yes, thank you very much. I'm really impressed. I've already started downloading images to add to my wirechanger library of images. I'm looking forwards to using some of these images in conjunction with the wallpaper generator and kalaedescope engine which has already produced some beautiful patterns. Nice one BigThunder
thanks for the pics!
really nice
PS: Whiterabbit-uk, it is BigThunder1 not BigThunder :)
I posted this at a few other places, and these comments came up:
We love those pictures!
The page says, "This record includes preview images and links to full resolution versions up to 21,600 pixels across.", but sadly, the highest resolution version we could find offered for download was 2048 by 2048.
Followed by:
(LJ user) seamora found it!
@ BigThunder thanks for the info on the TOC, I hadn't seen this, but I always put credits anyways, and when not sure I do find the original source of the pictures and ask for a written permission if it is something I will post on the NET. Got some of my own stuff ripped, stolen and such, sure didn't like it. So I do respect the work of others, especially when they provide stuff none of us could ever get, well I don't have 80,000$ USD to spend on a Cosmic ride.
@ Archangel thanks for the welcome, I do like this little forum, it is relaxed and there are good info. As for the TAX cut I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you...me I KNOW I won't get one, I'm Canadian, even if we too give large chunks of $$$ to the NASA I'm sure I'll never see a dime come back, but these pictures are worth every dime...LOL
For everyone I too am having fun with the pictures, they do make a nice desktop, and some excellent texture material to use in other programs, plan to use them in fractals too, did use some of the Hubble ones site in fractals it was long redering but well worth the efforts
p.s. pls excuse some of my English as I'm a French speaking person.....so... I may sound "strange"
Hey nanook, I did see a little something for brothers and sisters to the north. On the current space shuttle, I observed "Canada" on the arm as it worked on the space station. At least thats a little something. For those that missed it, take a close look.
Bonjour Keilaron!tu as raison, Of course Archangel it is written Canada on the arm, after all didn't we design and built it ourselves, as a matter of fact I was extremely lucky to have seen it myself really up close, I was working at CAE in Dorval for a special project, and one night there it was in the middle of the Army training shed, I was dumfounded, couldn't believe it. I was used to see all kinds of simulators and other strange planes and what not engineers will dream up, but THIS..... oh it was a night to remember. The more so since I had a civil job.
Anyhow, we also have the future Mars team training right here in Canada, and not in laboratories, nope on the terrain, apparently we do have the perfect climatic condition for humans to train for a future Mars human expedition, never thought I would see this in my own lifetime, maybe my great great grand nephews, but not me.
I think these 2 links would be of some interest to the former Army/Navy and lets not forget Air Army friends from the States
http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/default.asp
http://www.cae.com/www2004/index.shtml
Just so you can see that Canada is indeed quite present in all of these missions. Along with other countries. ;-D
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