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NASA Releases New High-Definition Image of Earth

Posted by timothy on from the texas-centric-view dept.

New submitter klchoward writes "Working for NOAA, I have been really pleased to see the weather data from the new Suomi NPP satellite coming into our computer models already but have been blown away by its capability to take stunning high-definition images of our planet. See the article at Huffington Post or go straight to the image at NASA's website." Reader derekmead has some images from further afield, too: these beautiful images of Mars come from NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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  1. Re:Link to original size pic. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The overall(presumably composite) pic is pretty cool looking; but does anybody know if they have the data available in the less-immediately-elegant-but-rather-more-useful georectified form?

    As wallpaper, the press shot can hardly be beat. If they have the GeoTIFFs somewhere, though, that would have much broader application...

  2. Fractals Fractals Everywhere by jomama717 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The clouds, the rivers, the mountains, the coastlines, you name it - you can see fractals in any frame of that image, it's beautiful. Start at the tip of Florida and go ESE in full zoom, the cloud patterns almost look like they were generated in FRACTINT.

    --
    while [ 1 ]; do echo -n -e "\xe2\x95\xb$((($RANDOM&1)+1))"; done