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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Bart_van_der_Wolf on April 18, 2017, 05:46:31 am

Title: NASA Image and Video Library
Post by: Bart_van_der_Wolf on April 18, 2017, 05:46:31 am

FYI.

Finally, NASA has its universe of images in one happy, searchable place:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/finally-nasa-has-its-universe-of-images-in-one-happy-searchable-place/

https://images.nasa.gov/#/

Cheers,
Bart

Title: Re: NASA Image and Video Library
Post by: Telecaster on April 19, 2017, 04:04:24 pm

Yum, good stuff!

I'd also recommend the Univerity of Arizona's HiRISE site: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu

HiRISE is an imaging package onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and has been taking hi-res pics (as fine as 1 meter per pixel) of the planet's surface for over a decade. Besides monochrome HiRISE can also capture via Red, Blue and (near) IR filters. (In RGB images the green content is interpolated.) More recently the HiRISE folks have been making gorgeous 4K video pans down or across stitched image sequences. I doubt many people are aware of these, as they haven't been promoted at all AFAIK, but you can find 'em on YouTube. Here are links to a pair of recent ones:

https://youtu.be/oj4alRr8fQ0

https://youtu.be/u1mdk3OoQWE

-Dave-