Pictures from Space of Earth?

[ps]

Are there website which show photos of the Earth from space...maybe from
satellite or space station? I did see a photo on a friend's PC which he had
as a wallpaper, showing England and Spain and other Scandinavian countries,
marked by nightfall in part of the picture and daylight in the rest...cities
in night-time area were lit up. I recall the photo also showed north Africa.
Thanks
ps

 

[Azzman]

Are there website which show photos of the Earth from space...maybe
from satellite or space station? I did see a photo on a friend's PC
which he had as a wallpaper, showing England and Spain and other
Scandinavian countries, marked by nightfall in part of the picture and
daylight in the rest...cities in night-time area were lit up. I recall
the photo also showed north Africa. Thanks

Some usefull links:

http://local.live.com/

http://www.flashearth.com/

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

http://earth.google.com/

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Are there website which show photos of the Earth from space...maybe from
satellite or space station? I did see a photo on a friend's PC which he had
as a wallpaper, showing England and Spain and other Scandinavian countries,
marked by nightfall in part of the picture and daylight in the rest...cities
in night-time area were lit up. I recall the photo also showed north Africa.

google earth?

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[Abstract Reasoning]

Are there website which show photos of the Earth from space...maybe from
satellite or space station? I did see a photo on a friend's PC which he had
as a wallpaper, showing England and Spain and other Scandinavian countries,
marked by nightfall in part of the picture and daylight in the rest...cities
in night-time area were lit up. I recall the photo also showed north Africa.

Was it like this one?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/LivingEarth_lrg.jpg

 

[FTR]

Are there website which show photos of the Earth from space...maybe from
satellite or space station? I did see a photo on a friend's PC which he had
as a wallpaper, showing England and Spain and other Scandinavian countries,
marked by nightfall in part of the picture and daylight in the rest...cities
in night-time area were lit up. I recall the photo also showed north Africa.
Thanks
ps

I remember having seen this as a screensaver on the pc of a friend. The
earth remains in a fixed position and the night/day is moving over it.
It's definitely a cz domain but I have to askl for the name.


Frank

 

[KLINK]

Are there website which show photos of the Earth from space...maybe from
satellite or space station? I did see a photo on a friend's PC which he had
as a wallpaper, showing England and Spain and other Scandinavian countries,
marked by nightfall in part of the picture and daylight in the rest...cities
in night-time area were lit up. I recall the photo also showed north Africa.
Thanks
ps

Celestia
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

 

[David]

I remember having seen this as a screensaver on the pc of a friend. The
earth remains in a fixed position and the night/day is moving over it.
It's definitely a cz domain but I have to askl for the name.

Sounds like xearth to me.

http://hewgill.com/xearth/
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[Son Of Spy]

I remember having seen this as a screensaver on the pc of a friend. The
earth remains in a fixed position and the night/day is moving over it.
It's definitely a cz domain but I have to askl for the name.


Frank

That one is the "XEarth" screensaver..easy to find...

Cheers!

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Are there website which show photos of the Earth from space...maybe from
satellite or space station? I did see a photo on a friend's PC which he had
as a wallpaper, showing England and Spain and other Scandinavian countries,
marked by nightfall in part of the picture and daylight in the rest...cities
in night-time area were lit up. I recall the photo also showed north Africa.
Thanks
ps
[/QUOTE]
Awesome site by one of the authors of AutoCAD.

Fourmilab Switzerland
http://www.fourmilab.ch

Follow link in left frame.
Astronomy and Space>Earth and Moon Viewer

Here's a start. Link is good you may need to work it if it breaks
when wrapped. You can adjust values to get the view you want as well
as image size.

View from 1000000 km above 26°49'N 104°9'W
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/unc...n=104.143&ew=West&alt=1000000&img=learth.evif

 

[ps]

That's it...gee, where can I get more of such?
ps

 

[Abstract Reasoning]

That's it...gee, where can I get more of such?

These are the "Living Earth" images.

See here for an example;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p
(this interface is optimised for providing a rounded globe appearance)

and try here for customised results;
http://www.fourmilab.to/earthview/custom.html

For some reason it appears to be very difficult to receive "flat earth"
images suitable for wallpaper from the site, as it seems to be designed to
primarily display in a rounded globe format.

For a 1024 x 1024 version equivalent to the image on the website link, try
the following;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/unc...date=1&utc=2006-03-30+18:25:43&jd=learth.evif

Here's one of the South Pacific including Australia, New Zealand and PNG;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/unc...&date=1&utc=2006-05-10+5:25:43&jd=learth.evif

Should you wish to "tinker" with the url I provided, you can get suitable
images according to your own requirements.

All requests will start with the following baseline url;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?
followed by the size of the image;
imgsize=1024 (in this case 1024 pixels, could be 800, 640 etc 1024 maximum)
followed by;
&opt=-z (haven't tinkered with this, so as is will be fine)
then latitude;
&lat=44&ns=North (44 degrees North in this instance, can be North or South)
then longtitude;
&lon=4&ew=West (4 degrees West, can be East or West)
then altitude;
&alt=60 (as in kilometres above - 60 in this case)
image placeholder;
&img=
then the date and time you wish to apply to the image;
&date=1&utc=2006-03-30+18%3A25%3A43 (equivalent to 30 March 2006: 18:25:43
in form YEAR-MN-DY+HH%3AMM%3ASS - the %3A between the HH MM SS needs to be
retained in the url and not confused with being part of the time string)
and finally the base image source;
&jd=learth.evif (as in the Living Earth series)

 

[ps]

Thanks and much appreciated.
ps

These are the "Living Earth" images.

See here for an example;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p
(this interface is optimised for providing a rounded globe appearance)

and try here for customised results;
http://www.fourmilab.to/earthview/custom.html

For some reason it appears to be very difficult to receive "flat earth"
images suitable for wallpaper from the site, as it seems to be designed to
primarily display in a rounded globe format.

For a 1024 x 1024 version equivalent to the image on the website link, try
the following;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/unc...date=1&utc=2006-03-30+18:25:43&jd=learth.evif

Here's one of the South Pacific including Australia, New Zealand and PNG;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/unc...&date=1&utc=2006-05-10+5:25:43&jd=learth.evif

Should you wish to "tinker" with the url I provided, you can get suitable
images according to your own requirements.

All requests will start with the following baseline url;
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?
followed by the size of the image;
imgsize=1024 (in this case 1024 pixels, could be 800, 640 etc 1024
maximum)
followed by;
&opt=-z (haven't tinkered with this, so as is will be fine)
then latitude;
&lat=44&ns=North (44 degrees North in this instance, can be North or
South)
then longtitude;
&lon=4&ew=West (4 degrees West, can be East or West)
then altitude;
&alt=60 (as in kilometres above - 60 in this case)
image placeholder;
&img=
then the date and time you wish to apply to the image;
&date=1&utc=2006-03-30+18%3A25%3A43 (equivalent to 30 March 2006: 18:25:43
in form YEAR-MN-DY+HH%3AMM%3ASS - the %3A between the HH MM SS needs to be
retained in the url and not confused with being part of the time string)
and finally the base image source;
&jd=learth.evif (as in the Living Earth series)

 

[ps]

Just a curious question...are these images simulated or for real?????
ps

 

[Abstract Reasoning]

Just a curious question...are these images simulated or for real?????
ps

As I understand it, they are enhanced composites.

Such custom options provide a sort of cross-over between satellite imagery
and simulator rendering packages. Effectively, the source satellite image
data is treated as a base "texture" which can then be modelled. Not too
much different from packages such as Celestia.

 

[Franklin]

I remember having seen this as a screensaver on the pc of a
friend. The earth remains in a fixed position and the night/day
is moving over it. It's definitely a cz domain but I have to
askl for the name.

Sungraph will also do this. Press the button "world view full
screen". See pic at bottom left of http://www.analemma.com/SunGraph/

Also Sunclock does the same but shows a polar view and analogue
clock. http://www.mapmaker.com/sunclock.htm

SunTimes almost does the same but it is a bit heavy on the system.
http://www.fv01.dial.pipex.com/world.htm?suntimes.shtml