Remember that 600MB satelite image of the earth? I finally got it.

[ThisIsMatt]

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but if you're on dialup don't bother...I wasn't very impressed. For 251MB, you would think you could get pretty good detail of the west...not even enough to see a city (didn't look toooo hard). However, I could see the Oceano dunes near where I live...

 

[Escalade]

<< I wasn't very impressed. For 251MB, you would think you could get pretty good detail of the west...not even enough to see a city (didn't look toooo hard). >>


I think someone posted earlier that the scale was 4 pixels per square mile... at that resolution, even large structures like airports wouldn't be visible - at least not distinguishable. You should be able to see variation in vegetation and the different crops, provided the photographs were taken around the harvest season time frame.

The images are interesting, even to non-scientists, but if you?re expecting to see your house, then you might have better luck here...
TerraServer

 

[Tanner]

hehehe, I'm gettin' this @ like 700Kb/s! from that scdc nasa server! this ROX!

I took a total of 9 minutes! w00t w00t!

SWEEEEEEEEET! now...how the HECK do I OPEN IT! ?

 

[gsaldivar]

For those that are having problems opening the image in Photoshop:

Open Photoshop, and go to Edit > Preferences > Memory & Image Cache.

Set Physical Memory Usage "Used by Photoshop" to around 90%.

Now go to Edit > Preferences > Plug-ins & Scratch Disks.

Set up your scratch disks - the volume having the most free space available
should be listed first; the volume with the least free space available should be
listed last. Close Photoshop, and try opening the image again.

If Photoshop fails continues to give you the scratch disk error, your only
recourse is to either add RAM or a spare HD with some free space on it. Remember
to add any new scratch disk to Photoshop's preferences, or Photoshop will ignore
it.

Photoshop will take all the RAM & HD space you can throw at it, and then beg for
more. When I was doing commercial design work, our machines were equipped with
between 1-2 GB of RAM, and we still made extensive use of scratch disks.