Author Topic: NASA has some ridiculously high resolution images out there (Read 2041 times)

TristanLuigi · May 13, 2014, 08:41:54 PM

Okay, so I was looking for a hi-res picture for earth, and Google Images has a resolution filter. I used that on 4MP and got what I wanted. For the lulz, I changed it to 70MB and found a website with some of NASA's images. 21600*21600. That's over 466MP. I can't tell you how detailed it is, because Chrome ran out of memory before it loaded any of it.

Why is this NECESSARY?

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=73580
The PNG file is 208MB, the JPG is 15.

EDIT: There's more, for several months: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_cat.php?categoryID=1484

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Planr · May 14, 2014, 12:22:12 AM

imagine how much trouble someone would get in if they put one of those images on their forum profile signature

biggest pagestretch in history

Buu · May 14, 2014, 12:25:54 AM

Oh trust me nothing could beat the beast that used to roam my sig, just ask camel

Steemer · May 14, 2014, 09:24:51 AM

There is a camera on the MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) that is specifically designed to take high resolution images.

https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/