Space Shuttle Mission Images

fred_the_slow writes, "The German Remote Sensing Data Center has posted images from the ongoing Shuttle Mission. The resolution is amazing, as the pictures on this link show." Beautiful stuff! Takes a while for the images to download, but they're worth waiting for.

Comments

Slashdot needs mirrors

[Teman Clark-Lindh]

Seems like the last few "interesting link" posts that have been made, the site goes down in oh, 10 or 15 minutes. Slashdot should take all that big money they've been getting, and buy some big-ass to mirror all the pages they link to.

Re:hmmm

[Detritus]

The images are created from C-band and X-band radar signals, not from visible light or infrared. Water vapor will slightly attenuate the signals but not reflect them.

You can't see the wall of china from space

[intmainvoid]

I read an interview last week with an astronaut who had taken photos from space - he said that the old story that you could see the wall of china from space is just a myth.

Then again, i suppose the astronauts could just get together and makeup whatever story they wanted - it's not like we're going to go and check ourselves.

Long time to load, eh?

[Seenhere]

No, Roblimo, those images only took a long time to load when you were the only one in the western hemisphere loading them.

Now they are taking forever to load, since you posted the link to that poor unsuspecting site. Man, I wish you guys would just quit doing that without organizing some mirrors first.

What the heck, here's another link (don't want to call it a mirror, since it's the original): http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/srtm_images.html

--Seen