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NASA Opens Space Image Library
slatterz writes with an excerpt from a brief PC Authority article:
"NASA is to make its huge collection of historic photographs, film and video available to the public for the first time. A partnership with the non-profit Internet Archive will see 21 major NASA imagery collections merged into a single searchable online resource. The NASA Images website is expected to go live this week. The content of the site covers all the diverse activities of America's space program, including imagery from the Apollo missions, Hubble Space Telescope views of the universe and experimental aircraft past and present."
The site is working already, and it looks fantastic. Don't hesitate to share any interesting pictures or movies you find.
This is great, my only hope is that they start with the older stuff first.
I've got some old 8x10's my father would bring home - he was an engineer at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center from the beginning of the space race through to the Jupiter probe.
Now I have these wonderful images I can share with my young daughter of what an old computer looks like and the slide-ruled people who ran them.
I know I'm gushing, but this is going to be great in so many ways, as along with some spectacular shots of space - we'll also see down-to-earth images of the culture at the time that cannot be expressed even in 1000 words.
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I just went there and already found this. I can't wait to find more.
I really like this image showing the rover tracks leading back to the Apollo 14 Lunar Module "Antares".
How anyone can look at this image in particular and claim the landings were faked is beyond me. It's a wonderful image, let's just hope we'll be back there soon to take more!
... to find a galaxy which looks likes goatse.
...an entirely separate datacenter and ip range,
just for the conspiracy theorists.
Ok, I'm taking bets on how many days before NASA slips up some contraversial picture that raises questions about UFOs. You know, like some of these interesting NASA pics.
Hmmm, I wonder if volunteering photos will make, hacking NASA a little less likely going forward.
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They photoshopped out the Aliens and the Moonbase and the spot where Superman had a fight with that evil blond guy.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out... The site was stunning.
I always found that the images from Voyager 1 put our insignificance in perspective. This is a wonderful thing for NASA to do and I hope it will inspire many of current and future generations.
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These images are amazing! I'm curious why all the 'newer' images are always low quality (small). I know they have larger, higher quality images, and I've seen some of the larger images on the JPL and NASA site, however, the large images are usually older missions and there are quite a few poor images, Mars rover mission for instance, that are obviously smaller versions of the original. I hope I'm mistaken and these full resolution images are available, but I've looked pretty good and can't seem to find them, so if there there it's not obvious where they are. Can anyone enlighten me?
I did not RTFA but will they upload those awesome images in higher resolution? It would be the best wallpaper site on the web...
Dammit captchas.
I look forward to wasting much time on the site looking at all the amazing sights!
In spite of all the criticism, much of it deserved, something like this reminds us that NASA has had its share of triumphs. I hope they start to find their way again.
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One of the things that always annoyed me about NASA is that so little media gets released. You read news articles boasting how one of their probes has taken thousands of pictures, and maybe 10 of those ever get released to the general public. The public funds NASA, and I think a site like this can go a long way to convincing people that this funding is worth it.
HiRise is pretty cool too.
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Everything the site shows are two links.
One how to enable javascript and one how to
enable javascript in firefox.
I do not get it why people think their site is
important enough to execute code from them.
And then give no explanation of their inability
to write proper webpages, but instead just instruct people how to enable javascript, without
giving an warning that this might be against their computers security guidelines and even a reason to get fired....
No pics of the studio where they filmed the moon landing :(
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Hey cool! I've always wanted to find the background image of the end titles for the original Lost in Space series (colour version).
I wonder if it's not too old. I believe it was taken around 1959?
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http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~5~5~20520~125573:Apollo-17-Astronaut-Training
Guy standing in the white Boeing suit, near right center edge of frame. Thanks heaps, NASA.
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If those kids kill themselves before reproducing, any genetic tendency to aggression they had won't be passed to future generations. Unfortunately, it's expected that overly aggressive populations with high mortality rates in young ages will, given enough time, develop suitable mating behaviour that allows them to reproduce sooner.
Evolution has its own agenda, you know.
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Since the NASA images are public domain, they could have saved themselves the trouble of setting up their own website by loading them to this media archive.
... I doubt they'll shwo the alien pictures too.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
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With the exception of the spacecraft we sent out, and RF from our radio and TV, everything about us is on that tiny little grain of sand
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I wonder how hard and useful it would be to merge these photos into Google Sky. They probably don't have exact coordinate info... or do they? ... and maybe Google already has deeper pictures, but wow, if all Hubble photos could be stitched together and made available with such a great interface, that would be awesome.
I've been advocating for publishing those archives for many years, since about 1991 when I met a NASA archivist at a Unix conference in San Jose, CA. I'm very pleased to see these archives opened for public use.
What I wanted since 1991 was to see NASA actually mail through the USPS a CD-ROM (later a DVD) once a year to every American household (minus those who mailed them back, postage free, opting out). A "greatest hits of 2008" etc, that would be collectible, useful for school assignments, and just a beautiful document. Free of charge - driving home the point that we'd all already paid for this work by NASA.
I'd have mailed them all to arrive just before the Income Tax Deadline, so people could see where their taxes were funding America's most inspiring work.
Maybe Archive.org can spur something similar, and at less cost. Like a "greatest hits contest", which lets the public make "playlists" of NASA content, judged by public voting influencing a celebrity panel or something (like American Idol). Then NASA or Archive.org could burn DVDs of the winners, selling them as "commemorative" to raise money for the project, or even proceeds earmarked to specific NASA projects the public wants to further subsidize.
So far my original idea now seems quite consistent with NASA's plans for its archives. Maybe my more specific ideas for them would also be timely and welcome.
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I browsed quickly through the site and didn't see any video.
Two of my very favorite things to watch, and I could literally sit and watch them over and over for weeks are the Apollo 11 and 17 landing videos.
NASA has placed online full video libraries for both Apollo 11 and Apollo 17. *
The actual Apollo 11 landing is here (16 minutes).
The actual Apollo 17 landing is here (4 minutes).
The Apollo 17 video will send shivers up and down your spine I guarantee it.
* Most unfortunately, the videos are in Quicktime(tm) format. If you, like me, use Windows, go here to get Quicktime. If you have NoScript, disable it for that page because there is a script that autodetects your OS. Download the most basic player and uncheck all options because Apple tries to install all sorts of incredibly annoying nag- and crap-ware. Also make sure you do not select auto-update because thats another level of nagging to upgrade to a paid service. Finally, use Spybot to disable the Apple updater in your startup list.
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I wish that they would spend more on the future.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I wonder if they will make the pictures of the aliens available? After all, they know about them!
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Wow even nasa isnt safe from the effects of slashdot: NASA Images is experiencing high load, please wait 30 seconds and reload.
I mean really, really? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I know a NASA photographer who has been working there for darn near 40 years now and I've always understood that the entire photo library has always been freely accessible. I believe this is the first time they might be available over the INTERNET, but to the "public"? No more so than the public library is off limits because it is not published online. Anybody know better of this?
Is there a NASA audio archive available anywhere? I've been looking around, but have only found a few sites with a small number of audio clips. Having an Apollo moonwalk on my ipod would be sweet.
The top page opens OK, but so far haven't been able to access anything else. "NASA Images is experiencing high load, please wait 30 seconds and reload."
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Started my days in the McDonnell Spacelabs, where Mercury and Gemini were built. Dad always said he'd get a computer when the NASA archive was available, since his tax dollars paid for it. Convinced him to get a TX-Instr. tape-drive machine, and a Commie-64, so he could do his tax returns, and then he got himself a Mac, one of those obnoxious non-alterable deskblobs. Still have it in the basement. Might be museum-quality.
Won't touch the archives unless and until They quit the quicktime bs. And I've multiple degrees in astrophysics/physics/materials. How dare they?
We paid for it once, already.
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They will hear from me.
I was able to get to look at a picture from a direct link someone posted even though the site was going very slow and downloaded a neat picture. For some reason, the jpeg file was in a .zip, so the "compressed" file was actually a bit larger (about 4 KB) than the actual picture, making the extra compression kind of pointless. Maybe that's why they're getting slashdotted so badly!
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It's another packaging of the 160x120 videos they already have online. Now if they threw in the word "cloud" and some community sections, they'd have something.
The NOAA takes its licensing claims very seriously. It's far more lucrative that ocean and atmosphears stuff. No. paperwork is where the real future lies. http://www.licensing.noaa.gov/
This nice picture was taken by the veteran astronaut who recently claimed aliens exist. May be he saw something up there on the moon?