have a look at some of these earth images

ladies and gents,
NASA through the blue marble project has released new images of a cloudless earth, just look at some of the links at the bottom of the page, amazing.
stephen.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

These images are so beautiful, its amazing to think that there is Earth, a planet made up of 70% water suspended by gravity, in its orbit around the sun, all that water hanging and moving in space, you could think that is even more bizarre than Enceladus and all its extremely frozen water,suspended and moving also in the same solar system! Thanks for that.

Deirdre Kelleghan
IAS
www.irishastrosoc.org

I wonder if google will incorporate this data into google earth? Being able to zoom to areas and watch changes over the space of a year would be interetsing.

That is some picture(the one centrerd on Africa)! I am still amazed that, with the size of some European cities, we can't see them from space (just think of the size of London = bigger than Dublin county, and you can picture that).

:shock:

Seanie.

And for more interesting satellite photography:

www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_...competition_results/

Theres bound to be an aurora[1] out in the open somewhere in Nevada...

Cheers,
~Al


[1] No the other kind JohnF