Free High-res NASA Earth Images
NASA has released a huge number of high-resolution pictures of our planet earth at visibleearth.nasa.gov, which are, of course, free from copyright restriction of any kind, NASA being a government agency. Want a photo of our big blue marble planet? Check. Want to download infrared (IR) imagery of various parts of the earth? Check. Want to look at foliage, sea levels, or some other geological feature? Check.
They’re even using torrents (BT) to distribute high resolution photos of certain parts of the earth. Personally, I’ve never seen a 86400 x 43200 photo before, and one 1/4 of each dimension, or 1/16 smaller took 10 minutes to open in Photoshop with a gig and a half of RAM and a server scratch drive with a 16MB buffer. I’m glad they’re not using Apache to serve 2.9GB photos!
Very recently, NASA also put out this gorgeous picture of the southern lights, or aurora australis, as their IMAGE satellite circled the earth on September 11, 2005 after an unusually high burst of solar flare radiation:
The colored lights are the result of high-energy particles reacting with the earth’s magnetic shield.
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on January 28th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
Awesome!
on March 23rd, 2006 at 11:36 pm
want Hi rez of Augusta Ga.
on May 5th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
wow incredible!!!
have no clue where to locate high res but sure made me want to get myself a replica of the Earth City Lights Image
on September 6th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
i like to know and like to have the satalite images of my contry and like to know that how the satalites workes if you are interested in me pls contact to my email address
on October 20th, 2006 at 9:32 am
cool nice one
on January 19th, 2007 at 4:21 am
i’m a studant of university of peradeniya in srilanka.i’m studing about chemistry for a special degree.i would like to know more details about that and i hope to join with nasa.
on January 24th, 2007 at 1:38 am
I am just curled up with my dog checking out satellite photos and ran in to this one. Cool.
on March 15th, 2007 at 1:00 am
THANX!! when photos are taken of earth from space it really puts it in prespective of how tiny we really are… Now i know how bacteria feels! Just kidding…. but no really nice pic.
on August 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
guauuuuuuuuuuu thast amazing
on November 22nd, 2007 at 1:58 am
that’s amazing and alot like looking at the moon. but, more colorful.
on November 23rd, 2007 at 11:55 am
How can I get satalite images of South Korea on my web-TV?????
on January 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
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on June 6th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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