NASA's Earth Observatory Shows Solar Flare

staaktdenarbeid writes "In the past few months I became very impressed with the timeliness and quality of NASA's Earth Observatory. When hurricane Isabel struck, their imagery showed me the biggest latte ever made. Now that Southern California is on fire, it takes only a look from outer space to see how bad the sitation really is. And, today, a massive solar flare showed up on their website as soon as it errupted (so to speak). Each of these pictures is accompanied by detailed technical background. And for the rest of us, they also make perfect screen backgrounds. Very cool."

Comments

Re:Impressed?

[pstreck]

it's better them spending it on fancy telescopes than wars for false reasons.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

totally unsuitable for a background

[jjeffries]

what kind of puny setup do you have? you need to get a man's desktop--I'm talking big. A real man would take two 15" monitors over a single 17" any day, and over a 19" every day except perhaps the sabbath. Anything less than 2000 pixels wide is just weak. Only problem is, it's damn tough to find a background. You'll have to re-scan your ass in a higher resolution if you don't want the jaggies, and nobody wants the jaggies on their ass, mon!