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NASA BlueMarble: Next Generation
gbnewby writes "Remember the NASA Blue Marble composite image of earth from space, completely cloud free? Today a whole new series was released showing earth scenes from cloudless days across all 12 months of 2004. These beautiful images come in many different resolutions and formats. NASA even provided some animations. We and others have set up web, ftp and rsync mirrors; let the Torrents begin!"
The best way to enjoy NASA's blue marble is through Celestia.
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It was so good I couldn't bring myself to post it anonymously :(
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I suggest a right-click of mouse and then Save As in the browser to save the above-linked images.
The files are huge and may be Slashdotted soon as well.
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The creators call Celestia a "free space simulation" that lets you explore the Universe in 3D.
It runs on all platforms including my favourite, Linux.
"Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects."
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Reminds me of this great picture I was emailed a few years back http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmkempe/52260470/
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Nine planets round the sun
Only one does the sun embrace
Upon this watered one
So much we take for granted
So let us sleep outside tonight
Lay down in our mother's arms
For here we can rest safely
If green should slip to grey
But our hearts still bloody be
And if mountains crumble away
And the river dry
Would it stop the stepping feet
Take all that we can get
When it's done
Nobody left to bury here
Nobody left to dig the holes
And here we can rest safely
One sweet world
Around a star is spinning
One sweet world
And in her breath I'm swimming
And here we will rest in peace
...it'll inspire Chris Laurel to work on it again. Fellow makers Dr. Fridger Schrempp and "Toti" have been left largely on their own with the code these days, it seems. It's amazing in any case, and I doubt it'll need any work from Chris for me (or anyone else) to have the new (if at all different) Blue Marble on Celestia.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
I browse while at work and would appreciate if I didn't have to view cursing and potty-talk on a web site for science/engineering professionals.
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I set up a 386 to mirror the 22 gigs of data with my 56k modem connection right here. Not too many at once, please
JPEG and many other file formats are limited to 65,535 pixels in any given dimension. The largest image in this dataset is 86,400 x 43,200. What file format are they going to use?
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Those of us true uber-geeks have IPv6, where localhost is ::1.
So ha!
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NASA's open source world viewer project World Wind will have support for next generation Blue Marble on the 20th. In fact developers today got the beta xml with coverage of all thirty six new blue marble layers.
a slashdot story about blue balls we're very attached to
Yup, our server is having issues. Now I'm going to have to spend tomorrow pulling all the 5400 by 2700 and 21600 by 10800 pixel links off ...
r ble.html has small samples.
In the meantime, http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/blue_ma
well, I hope they have fast internet connections.
I personally have always found multi-gigabyte emails kinda annoying.
We've /.ed an entire planet.
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Bunch of hypocrits! You blast America and NASA all week, then leech the fruits of their work??
Here's another mirror. There's a really big map, and a wallpaper that I made for personal use. http://eightyford.com/archives/126/
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A Hitchhiker's guide reference, and an anti-Bush message, all in one post? Mr. Adams would have been proud.
Takes one to know one.
... whats all that bullshit with marbles??
didnt you kids listen in school?
the world is FLAT!!!
everything else is pure evil and those images are made right by the devil!!
I forgot to mention in the posting: there are several neat :(
fly-over navigation programs that can use these images. One
with a tie to the U. Alaska is EarthSLOT.
The mirror links include an "earthslot" subdirectory, where
ready-made flyover files are available. Unfortunately,
EarthSLOT is Windows-centric
I didn't think you could /. a Torrent, but the tracker is refusing my connections.
Pull the ftp and http access to the actual files, and leave just the torrents and tracker -- make people HELP you distribute the data, not just plow your server into a smoking heap hot enough to melt any nearby glaciers.
http://geotorrent.org/ would probably be a good cohort too.
-- There is no truth. There is only Perception. To Percieve is to Exist.
Since the given mirrors are slashdotted, here's the obligatory corel cache link:
w sroom/BlueMarble/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov.nyud.net:8090/Ne
...server, is what they need. cuz this one is dying.
Mirros?
When I was a kid, I had a wall-wide mural of Earthrise as seen from the moon. To this day, it is one of the most beautiful photographs I have ever seen. Stuff like this always astounds me. We have spaceships! Someone took a picture of that! How cool! Earth Rocks!
Has anyone downloaded the "big" (non-tiled) raw dataset yet to comment on whether it is accessible through normal image-editing software? Photoshop (and presumably the Gimp) can open raw image data, but whether this particular file woks (and what settings it requires) don't seem to be mentioned anywhere.
I'd love to wallpaper my office with this image (I have a large 40"x50" version of an earlier 20k x 20k image currently) and would like to do all my adjustments on the original 500m file, then tile it to my own needs.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
To the fool that modded the above offtopic. Didn't you notice there's NO torrent link. I swear this place gets stupider every year.
How could someone post a giant, hires image of the earth and NOT post an obligatory pov-ray "Earth marble" in space?!
// GENERATE WITH
// povray +W640 +H480 +A0.3 -J +Q11 +R6
#include "textures.inc"
camera {location 8 look_at 0}
light_source { -50 color rgb 1 }
light_source { 50 color rgb 1 }
sphere
{ 0, 4.5 pigment {image_map {
jpeg "world.topo.bathy.200405.3x5400x2700.jpg"
map_type 1 interpolate 2 } }
finish {ambient 0.4 diffuse 1 specular 0} }
sphere {
0,1 texture { Starfield scale 1} scale 200
no_shadow hollow on }
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
Let see
5% > 1%
50% > 1%
99% > 15
Works for me.
If > and confuse you just remember:
the alligator is hungry so the mouth opens towards the bigger meal.
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great cache, good job nobody relys on it
Umm the images clearly show that the world is in fact flat. These new fangled "globes" that you see in places of "science" actually compress the north and south edges of the world in order to fit the world map on a sphere.
Please do not speak to me, as I'm obviously posting "troll" and "flamebait" messages, simply using a quintessential specimen like George Bush as an example of a "self-absorbed, egotistical asshole".
The moderators are correct: these people do no need, nay, do not care about the whole "you are here" thing.
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no wonder NASA needs billions, we keep slashdotting thier servers and driving thier ISP costs through the roof. thats not to mention all those server they have to replace from unexplained fires.
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Yeah, and shift keys are right below Caps Lock and Enter.
This is the best reason yet to get a faster computer with a nice video card. It would be nice if someone had a wiki for linux people to mention their experiences. Seems many cards get glitches in zooming. See WorldWind video card page (for windows but maybe same issues on other linux software when zooming this data?) Speaking of which if anyone has a recommendation for a distro / windowmanager / xserver / video card / machine configuration for this type of thing now would be a good time! I remember when SGI used to sell a souped up PC for large dataset visualization (not that it sold I think..). My guess would be a motherboard with huge internal bandwidth and I/O, some big SATA drives, a couple gigs of RAM, and the latest video card by (who?)..
no tree-huggers ever wrote folk songs about the Earth before Dave Matthews Band, and none will ever do so well.
Riiiiiiight.
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Dude, this is Slashdot. We're going to parse the URL list using a Perl script and then run wget -i on the resulting output, saving the files to the directory /usr/share/marble and using chmod to set appropriate permissions for our machine's users.
Right click save as. Pfft.
Having that data in a google maps like interface would be a really nice way to navigate it.
That's an image from the original Blue Marble.
b le/BlueMarble_2002.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMar
Assuming there is or will be a 86400x43200 TIF of JPEG file, you can use a TFW of JFW file that reads like this in your favorite GIS app:
:)
0.00416666666666
0.00000000000000
0.00000000000000
-0.00416666666666
-180.00000000000000
90.00000000000000
I've got a bundle of these from the last Blue Marble at this page.
I do work for Mud Springs Geographers, which have an app called AWhere that support loading this sort of image as a map layer. I'm not into crass commercialism, but unfortunately, Slashdot won't let me post just that TFW because of the lameness filter. You'd think they would make excpetions for anciend user ids or excellent karma, but no.....
(Okay, I've removed the whitespace from the snippet above, but keep in mind that most TFW files have the decimal point positioned 20 spaces from the left edge.)
Congrats on getting an interesting mod for that one. My hat is off to you and your clearly FUNNY post.
Help I'm a rock.
I was about to say this:
The northern hemisphere is obviously deep in the winter as the snow line during summer is about 500-1000 miles more north of where it shows in this picture in North America anyway. It would be great if they could use another year to capture the whole thing in summer.
When i realized this:
Such a thing is impossible! I'm sure the sad fact is that during summer North America is covered in a thick vale of pollution. Blue earth my ass.
Does this mean a lot of people are going to visit the NASA site so it will be offline?
Anyway, thanks for making this available and for all the bandwidth :)
Yes, because grass and soybeans are purple. In addition a square
l e_maps_/B razil/Rondonia//Deforestation_in_Brazil/
kilometer is pretty damn large, let alone 8x8 km. In many places
cutting is done in patchwork for one reason or another.
http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/04/07/goog
http://perljam.net/google-satellite-maps/id/1201/
There are others but feel free to do your own due diligence.
Were that I say, pancakes?
Get the addon here. It is only 160KB as all data is downloaded on demand.
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where Tunesmith and Proserpina hid the Ringworld.
Someone please post a torrent with the super uber high quality of 500 meter/pixel images.
This one has been my desktop background since time immemorial. It's a 39.6MB TIF, play around with the settings to convert this really nicely, JPEGs floating around on the web don't look anywhere near as nice. http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/1438/land_ligh ts_16384.tif
http://download.worldwindcentral.com/Blue_Marble_N G.kmz
http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu:6969/ now claims that the "requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker". DHT doesn't help much either. :/
Interestingly, this Earth image is a great illustration to why Soviet Union was having great difficulties competing with other countries.
The common answer is "communism is evil" or "planned economy is inefficient", but I suggest you look at the above image and find the Soviet Union there. Can you guess what substance the whole territory of the USSR is covered with? Hint: it's white, cold and tasteless.
Yep, you probably guessed right, even if you rarely see it in your country. Because you are so forunate to have warmer climate, the agricultural productivity in your country is probably several times higher, the investments required are several times lower.
Interesting what an innocuous satellite image can reveal...
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They made the video's iPod compatible!
Breathtaking...
Instead of sending those gold disc with arbitrarily encoded data, we should just make one big post-card with one of those pictures. Of course, the caption should read "From the Big Blue Marble, 3rd rock from Sol -- Wish you were here!"
I'd bet we'll see an uptake in UFO sightings thereafter.
-dZ.
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Can I suggest putting up more normal resolution pictures for those of us who find the pictures cool, but have things like google maps if we want to look closer? I find the images very aesthetic but don't have any use for anything bigger than 1280x1024; while I'm sure there's fun to be had with zooming in and out of very high-res pictures, those of us who have played with earlier satellite imaging programs (especially since with google maps you can see down to 1m pixels in many places) wouldn't mind getting a smaller image - which would also put less of a load on your servers!
Browsing with +2 to insightful posts and a higher threshold makes the average post seen seem a lot more ingenious
If other people had that experience, that might have overloaded the direct download attempts.
one step closer to
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downloading 5% of entire_world.mdl
>34 Terebytes per sec - 10 years 6 days remaining
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YAY!
You've got to be kidding.... who says "potty-talk" ? And if you're at work, why are you surfing the {voice of stereotypical evangelist preacher} ee-YEE-vil internet? {/voice} I'd appreciate not being condecended to.
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Am mirroring some of the images / videos at :
www.chatevnue.com/temp
Will be there for a few days before I remove them.
Posted as AC so no karma whore.
At EarthSLOT you can:
- see all 12 months in a 3D viewer similar to GoogleEarth and WorldWind (neither of which have new BMs online yet)
- use html code snippets to embed a 3D viewer into your own web page
- download a complete 3D application of all 12 scenes for use on your computer w/o being online (currently slashdotted)
- use a slightly buggy pure HTML viewer to get 3D perspective of the data using mac/linux/etc
- use the API to code your own applications with the data
- see dozens of 3D applications unrelated to blue marbles at much higher resolution (15 meter typ.)
At GeoFusion you can:
As far as I know, these are the only two interactive 3D applications currently serving the new Blue Marble data. If you know of others, let me know.- See all 12 monthly scenes in 3D at the same time and blend between them
- see katrina damage in a new way
- blend between cloud free earth during the day and night
Sorry I missed these earlier --
- A WorldWind BMNG app can be found here
- A GoogleEarth app can be found here.
Thanks to WorldWindCentral -- good job, neat stuff.
I've built a page with 540 by 270-pixel copies of each month, some of the ancilliary data files, and links to the 8km/pixel and 2km/pixel files:
b le/BlueMarble_monthlies.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMar
I'm really afraid that these composites will give the flat earthers extra fodder to further diminish the teaching of science in our K-12 schools. First they get rid of biology, and now they'll be getting rid of physics!
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http://img424.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11111111c lip00fffbbff159ew.jpg
the sun is god
Calculated every handful of minutes with cloud cover updated eight times a day, all thanks to the power of Xplanet. The daylight background map is now the Blue Marble monthly map. The current one is automatically rotated in place the first day of each month... Enjoy the realistic seasonal snow cover and the changing vegetation !
Two resolutions are available :
800x600 - http://www.ruwenzori.net/earth/earth800.html
1280x1024 - http://www.ruwenzori.net/earth/earth1280.html
Meanwhile, we finally have BitTorrent trackers available.
If you have a big network pipe (OC3 or better) and would like a backdoor way to download the data more quickly (or would like me to push the collection to you), drop me a note. It would be good to get the whole collection out for mirroring, and although many people have retrieved files there have not been too many who were able to download the whole 170GB collection yet.
(I'm replying to the first-showing comment for visibility, since
this story is already a little old)
Please visit http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/ for
much faster download links (we redirected the
traffic to a far fatter 'net pipe). Apologies to
people who have been trying to get the data, but
found the bandwidth insufficient. Greg
Please visit http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/ for
much faster download links (we redirected the
traffic to a far fatter 'net pipe). Apologies to
people who have been trying to get the data, but
found the bandwidth insufficient. Greg
The streaming is quite fast (with a good connection) and there are other "gateways" to high resolution Katrina and Tsunami damage imagery. Mars too.