Directory of Images from Space Resources

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Astronauts take photographs of the Earth for many reasons: science, weather, politics, geography, or simply for their own interest. Satellites and space stations also take automatic photographs as they orbit.

Resources in This Category

• Earth As Art 2

  http://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/
  Images taken by orbitting satellites show geographical features in unexpected ways. Some can be downloaded as screensavers.

• Earth at Night

  http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html
  A photograph made from several views of the whole world, showing city lights and areas of greater population. From NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day series.

• Earth From Space

  http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earthsp.htm
  A collection of photographs taken from various spacecraft, as well as captions, and quotations from the astronauts.

• Observing the Earth

  http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth
  Features the latest news on missions and satellites of the European Space Agency, with images and animations from previous journeys.

• The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth

  http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
  A searchable collection of pictures taken from 1961 to the present, with captions and background information.

• Views of the Earth

  http://earth.imagico.de/
  Features realistic earth views rendered with POV-Ray using free satellite data.

• Visible Earth

  http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
  A searchable collection of NASA photographs and animations, grouped according to location, land use and environmental issues.

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