“Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel.” boston.com/bigpicture via flight404@twitter
clouds
1 real time clouds. updated at most every three hours. Images are available in 2048x1024 or 4096x2048 resolution.
2 kifissia meteo. realtime satelite images including weather data.
3 ssec.wisc.edu. realtime imagery and data including hurricane and tropical storms, mesoscale winds, sea surface temperature, volcano watch, weather. directory listing
earth map resources
the following resources are heavily based on Robert Hodgin’s findings for his earthquake visualizations documented on flickr.
1 visible earth, blue marble, a catalogue of NASA images and animations of our planet. Image resources include land surface, clouds, city lights, raw bathymetry, raw topography. Image size ranges from thumbnails, 5400x2700, 21600x10800 up to 86400x43200 pixels.
2 Natural Earth, a collection of maps including clouds, elevation bump, masks (such as boundaries, cities, sea ice and water), textures of the earth, without cloud, no ice, at night. Maps do include rivers. Image size ranges from 8192x4096 to 16200x8100, directory listing with all the files.
3 earth texture maps include natural colors, atmospherical, coulds, elevation and bump map, water and land mask, night. in addition there are maps for moon, venus, mars and a stars map. Image size is 2500x1250 pixels.
4 how to texture a globe in processing.
by Matthias Dörfelt, mokaschitta. it is yet a veryfirst test render of a series of generative potraits Matthias is currently working on. The concept stays a secret for now.” rendered in openGL and GLSL.
via flickr
cloud of cups hanging from the ceiling. donovan, ace gallery, los angeles.
