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In memory of the crew of STS-107NASA's contributions to the world far exceed the images I have placed here (and the millions of others they have taken). Their contributions to science have increased our understanding of the Universe and our place in it, and they have improved the quality of our lives thru the technological advances which surround us. But the most important contribution NASA has given the world must certainly be the inspiration, and the chance to dream a little more and dare a little more. The crew of Columbia that left us on STS-107 understood all of this, and they gave their lives for this lofty purpose. I will be eternally grateful for their sacrifice, and deeply sad for their loss. Rick D. Husband, Kalpana Chawla, Pilot William C. McCool, David M. Brown, Laurel B. Clark, and Ilan Ramon represent the very best in humanity. I also wish to acknowledge the contributions of the shuttle Columbia itself. Among its many successful missions, Columbia placed the Chandra X-Ray Telescope in orbit. My limited professional connection to that mission has deepened the impact of this tragedy for me personally. Images from that mission (STS-93), are among the images below. |
In the same spirit of openness that NASA has shown, I release any rights I may have with respect to the editing I have performed on these images. If the original images are in the public domain, then mine are too.
None of the original images are the correct aspect ratio, these images have all been cropped to some degree. I've selected images that lended themselves to cropping for the wide screen, mostly just removing extra junk. In some cases however, the character of the picture was changed significantly, and I'll try to make note of that (except for the several times that footprints in the lunar dust were cropped out). There is a link to the original GRIN image in the description. Click on the image to download my 2560x1024 version.
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F-16 model WindTunnel test of F-16 Scamp model with laser illuminated smoke cross-sections. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001935.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, and chopped top and bottom. Do you really need to see more of the mounting bracket? Image Quality: Good |
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Armstrong on the Moon Neil Armstrong during his first EVA on Apollo 11. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001209.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom Image Quality: Good, somewhat grainy in portions |
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Duke on Plum crater Charles M. Duke on the rim of Plum crater, Apollo 16 Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001132.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom. A colorful camera lens effect was lost from the top. Image Quality: Adequate (could be sharper) |
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Tracks to Antares LRV tire tracks leading to the Lunar Module, Apollo 14. This is one of my favorite Apollo photographs. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001145.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom. A big sunburst in the upper right was cropped out. This picture was better before I cropped it, but it's still good. Unfortunately it doesn't split well across two monitors, the LM gets broken apart as do the tracks. Image Quality: Grainy |
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Irwin next to Rover James B. Irwin next to the LRV in front of Mount Hadley, Apollo 15 Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001117.html Image Manipulation: The image lost something in cropping. I compromised and chopped both the top of the mountain and the bottom of the LRV. There is also a good shadow below the LRV that had to be cropped. Image Quality: Good, except mountains are grainy |
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Irwin loads rover James B. Irwin loads equipment from the Lunar Module into the LRV; Apollo 15. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001140.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk and chopped top and bottom. Image Quality: Very Good (for an Apollo photo) |
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Trampled Lunar Soil Trampled lunar soil trimmed from the bottom of the previous image. This makes for a backdrop thats less like a photo and more like a texture. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001140.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, and cropped most of the top, and a bit of the bottom. Image Quality: Good |
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Scott on Hadley Delta David R. Scott and the LRV during Apollo 15 moonwalk. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001116.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom Image Quality: Adequate, but very washed out and fuzzy. |
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Lunarama (Lunar Panorama) Harrison H. Schmitt at Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), Apollo 17 Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001149.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk and cropped space on top, moonscape on bottom. Cropping decreases emphasis on the Lunar expanse of rock and dust. Doesn't split well across two monitors. Image Quality: Good, could use more contrast. |
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Mars Panoramas The top half of the image is from Mars Pathfinder, and the bottom half is the first ever photo from the surface of Mars, taken by Viking 1. Original (top):http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000461.html Original (bottom):http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001699.html Image Manipulation: Just shrunk to fit, nothing was cropped. Image Quality: Top half, excellent; bottom half adequate. |
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STS-31 Launch Space Shuttle Columbia waits its turn while Discovery lifts off on mission STS-31. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000684.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk and cropped top and bottom. The top of the closer launch pad is lost; so are trees and water at the bottom. Image Quality: Adequate, somewhat grainy, many scratches and flaws from scanned photograph. |
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STS-66 Launch Atlantis lift-off for STS-66. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000763.html Image Manipulation: This image lost the best part off of the bottom. There is a huge flock of birds in the water, all scattering because of the launch. But cropping with the birds in looked bad to me -- most of the shuttle was missing. The shuttle and the solid rocket booster are neatly bisected by the two monitors, which works well, IMHO. Image Quality: Adequate, scratches and flaws from scanned photograph. |
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Mark Lee Tetherless and Free Mark C. Lee tests Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system, during shuttle flight STS-64. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001056.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk and chopped the bottom. Image Quality: Very Good |
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SAFER Rescue System Tested Astronauts Carl J. Meade and Mark C. Lee (red strip on suit) test the new Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system some 130 nautical miles above Earth. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001077.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom. Lost some clouds on top, and most of the shuttle on the bottom. Image Quality: Very Good |
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Grazing Galaxies Montage of three Hubble images showing NGC 2207 colliding with IC 2163. Am I crazy, or is this staring at me? Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000897.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom. Image Quality: Very Good |
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Orion Nebula Gorgeous, very high resolution montage of 15 Hubble images of the Orion Nebula. Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000983.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom. This whole image is great, I picked a strip across that middle that I thought had the most interesting features. Image Quality: Outstanding |
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Orion Nebula Again Another Take on the previous image. This one seems to have better composition, and somehow the top looks like it belongs at the top (even though there is no "up" in space). Original:http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000983.html Image Manipulation: Rotated, shrunk, cropped top and bottom. Image Quality: Outstanding |
Chandra doesn't have the high resolution of Hubble (X-Ray imaging is just a "wee-bit" more complicated), so until there are more montages, most of this is photos from the shuttle mission that launched Chandra. Actually though, even Hubble images look bad scaled up to this size, and all of the Hubble images above are also montages.
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Galactic Center Survey This is mosaic of several X-Ray images, which gives great resolution for a beautiful backdrop. Original:http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/gcenter/index.html (download the TIF file for the best raw image) Image Manipulation: Shrunk slightly, and a bit of extra black border added at top and bottom. Image Quality: Good (should be very good, but it suffers from JPEG artifacting, which is my fault, not the fault of the original - I'll redo it at some point). |
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Columbia About to Launch The sparklers are ignited, but the engines haven't started. Rotated to fill the screen (duh). Original:http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/launch/99pasparklers.html Image Manipulation: Rotated 90 degrees clockwise, shrunk, and trimmed the (new) top, bottom, and right. Looks very different on its side. The launch tower was cut out. Image Quality: Almost Very Good |
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Columbia just after launch Man does this look cool rotated on its side! Original:http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/launch/99pp0959.html Image Manipulation: Rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise, shrunk, and cropped (new) top and bottom. Looks really different on its side. Image Quality: Very grainy but not in a bad way, and a scratch. |
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Chandra Ready to Deploy The Chandra X-Ray telescope has been tilted up from the shuttle bay. Original:http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/deploy/sts93_deploy2.html Image Manipulation: Rotated, shrunk, cropped. Lost a lot of the Earth and some of the shuttle. Image Quality: Very Good but some graininess. |
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Columbia Gliding to Land They started with a night launch. Why not top it off with a night landing? Original:http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/land/99pp0985.html Image Manipulation:Shrunk and cropped. Image Quality: Very grainy. Very VERY grainy. In this case, grainy is actually the point. |
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Columbia Lands Almost as grainy as the previous one. Original:http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/land/99pp0983.html Image Manipulation:Shrunk and cropped. Image Quality: Very grainy in a good way (but not as grainy as the previous image). |
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Infrared Saturn This (false color) infrared image was taken with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Original:http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html (halfway down the page) Image Manipulation: Shrunk, cropped top and bottom. Image Quality: Good (blurry, but good contrast, some striping presumably from NICMOS is visible) |
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Space Station EVA Wonderfully sharp image of Franklin R. Chang-Diaz working on the space station during STS-111. Original:http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-111/html/s111e5033.html Image Manipulation: Cropped on all sides. Not shrunk at all. Image Quality: Excellent, except that JPEG artifacts show in the area that is supposed to be blurry; again this is my fault and I should rework the image. |
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Space Station A big phallic symbol hovering over the earth, you get the idea. This image was taking during STS-111. Original:http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-111/html/sts111-708-093.html Image Manipulation: Shrunk ALOT and cropped top and bottom. Image Quality: Very Good |
GOES-8 takes pictures closest to my part of the Earth, You can pick up recent (within the last fifteen or thirty minutes) GOES-8 images from http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goesg/earth/Weather/GOES-8/gif/vis/4km/, and similarly GOES-10 images from http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goesg/earth/Weather/GOES-10/gif/vis/4km/.
There are four or five different standard images of different portions of the earth, you can write a script to parse them and figure out which ones have the area of interest for you. Or you can just grab any image over about 3 MB, which should be a full disk image of the earth.
I had a perl script for a single, 1280x1024 screen that would keep the most recent image of my neck of the woods on the screen. It broke, so when I fix it and modify it for the wide screen (to show the top half of the hemisphere across the two monitors), I'll put it here. In the meantime, get yourself hacking, or just grab one of the bigger images the next time there's a big pretty storm.
You also might want to check out XPlanet, which has provisions for showing a very nice map of the earth, with up-to-date cloud information. A number of projections are available, some of which are appropriate for wide-screen displays.
2560x1024 images
Dual-Monitor Images in Other Sizes
Raw data sources
Ideas
Please let me know if you have additional information or comments.
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