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NASA releases their entire photo and video catalog
GrimReaper
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So, in the past if you wanted to get NASA photos or video you'd have to dig around various NASA, JPL websites hoping to find what you wanted.
Well, look no more they've gone and centralised their collection to a single rather excellent site, aptly named NASA Images.
You can search through all NASA images (Apollo, Gemini, Hubble etc) and for the photos themselves it has a google maps type image viewer where you can zoom in and out and scroll around the image. You also have the option to download the image.
I'm not sure whether these images are the full resolution though, for example I downloaded this image of Buzz Aldrin on the moon and the resolution was 1536x1536. Significantly less than normal resolution for the film cameras of the time. (my guess is they're not wanting to use up massive amounts of bandwidth so they're not releasing the full high resolution images)
Well, look no more they've gone and centralised their collection to a single rather excellent site, aptly named NASA Images.
You can search through all NASA images (Apollo, Gemini, Hubble etc) and for the photos themselves it has a google maps type image viewer where you can zoom in and out and scroll around the image. You also have the option to download the image.
I'm not sure whether these images are the full resolution though, for example I downloaded this image of Buzz Aldrin on the moon and the resolution was 1536x1536. Significantly less than normal resolution for the film cameras of the time. (my guess is they're not wanting to use up massive amounts of bandwidth so they're not releasing the full high resolution images)
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This will quite literally make my job so much easier.
Space gives me a hard-on.
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This is exactly what I thought when I read the OP.
However, I'm going to leave mine on the Joker for a bit longer.
Definitely this.
Still, the site has been running incredibly slowly every time I've tried to use it. Evidently it can't handle all the traffic.
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A million conspiracy dolts seeking evidence of cover-ups at once.
You can clearly see that those shadows are being cast in different directions! It must mean they're from a nearby lamp!
It's annoying, because they are there if you get to them from the old crappy way.
they don't even have any gigapixel composites.
I can't find any of the hirise stuff either.
and the slowness. the horrible slowness.
Fix'd.
Seriously, though, awesome.
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I hate false color images.
What exactly do you mean?
Many of these images are composites of X-Ray and Infrared and so forth.
You know, shit we can't actually see.
I want to see the universe as it would appear if I was actually close enough to look at this cool stuff.
Recently I've been perusing the Photojournal from NASA's Image Gallery section. This fellow is my current desktop background.
[Universe] | [Solar System] | [Earth] | [Astronauts]
Why no [Aliens]?
NASA's only 50. Wait for the midlife crisis to hit. Then they go out and buy a Ferrari or something and we start up the bug wars.
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That is so awesome.
Same. I just think about it, and then suddenly it hits. I see a tiny sunspot, and I think that Earth, humanity, everything that we have ever accomplished could be completely destroyed in that 1/10000000th of a Sun. Then I see some gigantic star that could swallow the sun at whole and not even notice it.
Then I see a star that makes that previous star look like a speck of dust. o_O
Then I think about how big the galaxy is, and how it has billions of stars. :shock:
Then I think about how there are millions upon millions of galaxies in the universe.
Then I hear theories about multiverses, and around this point I go under my bed and hide for a week, too scared to look up to the sky.
Copyright issues.
Through exploding eyeballs?
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Ha, yup. All my backgrounds are NASA images anyway; now I can get them right from the source. Although I'm not sure how they're sorted, I wonder how easy it will be to find specific images with this.
Yeah I know what you mean, I generally prefer the visible light images as well.
You know we have like space suits and such since like decades ago.
Oh...WAIT...
This tends to happen when you are hurtling through the atmosphere, as freefall agents are wont to do.
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Anyways, this stuff is awesome, but they need a gallery of normal spectrum stuff because the other stuff isn't what space actually looks like.
Me too. It kind of sucks knowing how fake a lot of pictures of space are. Well not fake but how they are altered. When I learned the truth about astronomical images it was like killing Santa all over again.
I don't mind it so much when the colours are muted. It's just when they're Hyper-Green or Super-Blue or something hideously 'loud' that it gets to me.
I want to see space, the final frontier, not some dude's technicolor photoshop.
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I really worry that these false images could give people a false impression of how things actually work... it's like showing the Lion King in place of National Geographic.
Which I mean it kind of is but just not that vivid.