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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.
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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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.
What you're saying makes a lot of since. I didn't know the connections were so slow or intermittent. But even at 256kbps you should be able to download quite a few high resolution images, especially considering the amount of time they have had. Even with JAXA's Kaguya probe, they only released low resolution (low dimensions 800x600 for example), I only looked at the images when they came out a few months ago, but they were very small, maybe they released higher resolution images now.
This is a baseless guess, but I figured there was some monetary value attached to the full resolution image, and they were just waiting to auction it off to the highest bidder. And if that's ever been the case, seems like a publicly funded organization like NASA ought to act more like a library and less like the gift shop at Disneyland. I don't know they do that so it's just a suspicion, not trying to make accusations. It's not baseless though! We (the people) pay for the roads and sidewalks, but that does not stop the government from making parking meters.
I hope you're right and I'm just paranoid.
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.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
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.
Murphey's fighting Occam, and we're in the stands.
I hope that they can find the missing tapes. :)
I am not only a NASA brat, but also worked at GSFC circa 1976-1976 for Bendix as a sub contractor at the NTTF facility there.
Neat stuff happening then, and now.
Hopefully your daughter can experience the 'cool, awesome, and wow' factor we went through...that job sparked my interest in astrophysics even though at the time I was working in Logistics fresh out of my high school.
Long before I was old enough to think beyond 'Wow-cool- ASTRONAUTS!!-I loved 'playing' in the Mercury and Gemini capsules when I went to work with Dad before I was old enough to be hired there. (circa 7th grade I think)
Dude! Talk to your Dad with your Daughter present. That was a great time for the Space Race!
Don't quash her spirit or ambitions....feed them instead!
I would not be surprised if my Dad had not known your Dad.
Rock on dude!...don't deny your daughter, but encourage her.
P.S.
This post hit me out of the blue so to speak...and I have been drinking,...But give your daughter all of the facts and guide her in her discoveries and provide her with the facts.
Astrophysics is an interesting and growing field now days. Help her out in the right direction! (my humble opinion-end lecture)
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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....