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April 02, 2004Images from Space![]() Ever wonder what the Great Lakes area looked like from space . . . every day of the year, year after year? Then get thee to the MODIS image library run by the ERSC group at Univ of Wisconsin. (Warning: it's a big page with 912 thumbnails) There's also the "Gifts of the Glaciers website which includes a wider range of photos. NASA's GOES site lots of images including animated photos. NOAA has an OSEI Image of the Day page, which today is showing a major flooding disaster taking place on the Zambezi River in Namibia. Here's an image (1280x1162 jpg)of a serious smog problem over much of eastern China. This smog had been hovering over the area for over a month when the photo was taken in Feb 2004. Comments
NASA's Visible Earth site is pretty nice too, which uses a lot of MODIS imagery but has a search engine and hosts 15 megapixel images. I grabbed some of the MODIS pix for my fire scrapbook. Here's a nice clicable weather satellite image of western US.
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