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- Slackdragon, on 11/05/2009, -0/+15Stunningly low resolution, you mean.
- thekronz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7What I would do for some of these in high res....
- EatingPie, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Answers to a few questions above.
The "aerial" photos are from LEO (Low Earth Orbit), specifically the ISS (International Space Station). Often taken by an astronaut with a regular old DSLR. Sort of emphasizes how low their orbit can get!
On the resolution... These images are very reduced resolution from the originals, actually. There are high res versions out there, but sadly the site does not tell you the exact source.
EVERY IMAGE Nasa's Terra and Aqua Satellites have ever taken... EVERY SINGLE ONE (they take hundreds a day) is online. Nasa has a database where anyone can request an image (in HDF format) from Terra/Aqua for a specific date/time. You'd need software (like NASA's free Seadas, which runs on Linux and Mac OS X) to generate the true color images. You'd also need to know a specific date/time/location. So it's not exactly easy.
The easiest way to get images is through their Full-Globe "browse" images, which are already in true color, and are "tiled" together to cover the whole earth for that day. Drag the box and click "Get Granule Images."
http://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/browse_images/
The actual image database... You have to know what you're doing. You want MOD02QKM for highest resolution, and you can get a true color from there... using the aforementioned seadas (generate a "browse" image). Anything beyond that is scientific data. A lot of the images in the article were generated from MOD02, except the India fires one, which is known as a "fire" product (MOD14).
http://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/data/search.html
-Pie - IKORKYI, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Stellar comment.
- jshriver, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3Nice pics, but not all from space. Several look like aerial photographs.
- XenophobicAlien, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3Crap. To many pages to click through.
- Janjko, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Comments like these are why I love Digg.
- milkmage, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Super typhoons in the Pacific, dust plumes over North America and Russian calderas were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month
- Hayleybabes, on 11/05/2009, -0/+0I just love these sorts of pics
- bbfreak, on 11/05/2009, -0/+0Anybody looking for wallpaper sized images go here: http://spacegizmo.livingdazed.com/?cat=12
- Airforcefalco, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1Why don't you tell us?
- bbfreak, on 11/05/2009, -0/+0Go here. :P http://spacegizmo.livingdazed.com/?cat=12
- newstechkral, on 11/05/2009, -3/+2Great article
- nheron87, on 11/05/2009, -2/+1Meh, anyone else tired of "Stunning Satellite Photos from SPACE!" yet?
I have a coffee table book with much more striking satellite images.... - folsomfella, on 11/05/2009, -3/+2Though this'll piss of Louis C.K., while those photos are amazing, I'm to the "meh" stage with satellite imagery.
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