The original photo of the Earth from space, the one that everyone's seen, is
a powerful image. Now NASA's brought it up
to date with Blue Marble
2000 which just isn't as impressive. It's a computer model for a start:
Artifically colourised; shadows computer added (with magnified vertical
relief); Moon added. It's not the pixels, it's what's behind the pixels that
matters. Oh well. It's only to be expected - their website is just one huge
imagemap and the content is in PDF.
The original photo of the Earth from space, the one that everyone's seen, is a powerful image. Now NASA's brought it up to date with Blue Marble 2000 which just isn't as impressive. It's a computer model for a start: Artifically colourised; shadows computer added (with magnified vertical relief); Moon added. It's not the pixels, it's what's behind the pixels that matters. Oh well. It's only to be expected - their website is just one huge imagemap and the content is in PDF.