Natural Hazards and unique imagery
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Natural Hazards and unique imagery. NASA's fascinating and informative freely-accessible Earth Observatory. [news release]
This site may be new, but I think it must have been in the works for a while, or buried in some other site, because I came across what almost had to be a precursor to this it months ago. It had a similar front page, the icons were the same anyway, but all the image pages were just directory listings then. Anyway, it's a great resource, especially as it focuses on current events. Hopefully they'll build up a good archive as they go and back-build in some of the stuff I saw earlier.
posted by Nothing at 12:49 AM on February 6, 2002
posted by Nothing at 12:49 AM on February 6, 2002
Great link, MKN, thanks. Right now i'm revelling in the crispness of the high-rez images...like the detail in this image of New Orleans. Awe-inspiring.
posted by tpl1212 at 5:05 AM on February 6, 2002
posted by tpl1212 at 5:05 AM on February 6, 2002
Excellent link mkn, great pics and for once, a NASA site with half-decent graphic design.
posted by Zootoon at 5:21 AM on February 6, 2002
posted by Zootoon at 5:21 AM on February 6, 2002
This owes much in execution to the onetime CNN online feature known as Earthweek (which was discontinued sometime in 2000, if google and my memory serve aright -- the NATURE section even redirects to TECH nowadays).
posted by dhartung at 6:10 AM on February 6, 2002
posted by dhartung at 6:10 AM on February 6, 2002
so that's what red tide looks like!
i was watching this thing on cable demonstrating EO technology. they were demonstrating the use of different spectrums across time-series to show changes in urban density, vegetation, glacial movements, river deltas and lake levels. like it was stunning to see the aral sea turn into a puddle of mudd. i hope they put more of their data online. taxpayers want to know :)
posted by kliuless at 6:59 AM on February 6, 2002
i was watching this thing on cable demonstrating EO technology. they were demonstrating the use of different spectrums across time-series to show changes in urban density, vegetation, glacial movements, river deltas and lake levels. like it was stunning to see the aral sea turn into a puddle of mudd. i hope they put more of their data online. taxpayers want to know :)
posted by kliuless at 6:59 AM on February 6, 2002
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Reminds me of wasting time at the library, pawing through the enormous world atlas, and realizing just how amazing glaciers look from up above.
posted by apostasy at 11:36 PM on February 5, 2002