Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet

TomDM writes "BBC News has a story on how scientists created the most accurate and detailed image of our planet yet, composing the image from satellite data, and adjusting it for the correct colours. "

Comments

Where?

[buserror]

I wish we had access to that kind of data, as well as elevation data for the whole planet.

Corelating both, we could have a planetwide flying simulator, or even submarine simulator.

Then add the higher resolution satellite pictures to enrich the places where you have them, and we'd soon have a hugely interesting data set!

I did a proto browser like that years ago, correlating the ghhs coastline data set and the etopo5 elevation map (at 1 degree resolution; nothing). And thats still the only vectorial data you can get covering the whole planet, for free.

it's OUR planet anyway, why can't they release the data? it's not like the resolution is enought to have any military value anyway!

Re:I want one.

[juju2112]

You actually can buy a poster of the nighttime earth picture. I had my mom get it for me for Christmas last year. It's really awesome -- It's mounted on my wall in the living room in a nice frame.

http://www.weatherexperts.com/catalog/item.htm?cid =1&iid=48&start=1

So what does it mean?

[RNLockwood]

Is this the way the earth would look in spring time for all regions, or in the wet time for all reagions, or in the summer for all regions, or when there is the most photosynthesis for all regions? Remember it's summer south of the equater when it is winter north of the equator. In central brazil it's the rainy season but in the north east it's the dry season. So what does it mean?

Well, it's cool anyway.

Movies, amd More

[Alien54]

The bigger flat pictures and movies, although the 400 meg tiff files are on another page:

http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Blue Marble/