I’ve linked to this before, but did you know that you can browse a gajillion NASA images at the aptly named NASAImages website? They also have high-def videos, a cool timeline, presentations, and a search engine which actually works pretty well. You can even embed things, like this:
[Update: I removed the embed because it was autoplaying, and I found no way to turn that off.]
How cool is this?
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September 23rd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Well, there goes any productivity scheduled for today…
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Nifty? Yes. But I am rabidly irritated at any autoplaying widgets. Sigh.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Shibby!
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Do you want that in Centigrade or Kelvin?
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
?
It’s a broken image link for me…
I’ve linked to the [red-x] image thousands of times.
It’s far more likely with any given random inter-tube address anywhoo…
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Is there a HAL 9000 unit involved in that video anywhere?
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Well cool
A few latency issues and some confusing error messages, I got something like
You are using an old version of flash V 7 or older
But once I had waited a few minutes it sorted itself out.
Not terribly user friendly but hey, I know flash is imperfect.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Hey, I hate to complain, but your blog is RSS syndicated all over the place and this video is set to autoplay – so whenever I load up my LiveJournal, I get sound.
My officemates don’t like that.
Can you disable autoplay?
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
NASA is staffed by the most AMAZING individuals. They accomplish such unimaginable feats that some can never believe it really happened. This is an inspiring video depicting accomplishments by inspiring individuals!!!!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
All I get is an empty rectangle ith an empty scroll bar.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Is it true that all NASA animations are public domain?
September 24th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Pretty pictures are nice, but so is NASA’s data and the analysis that goes with it, or not, as the case may be:
At NASA’s site: http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/ the Global Average Temp chart shows that the temperature anomaly has flattened since about 2002 (despite a linearly increase in atmospheric CO2 over the same period); this year’s data suggests a dramatic decrease.
Meanwhile, NASA cites (at: http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=175) a study is referenced that asserts that if the 1998 data point is removed, the warming trend is readily apparent – which is obviously contradicted by NASA’s own image in the same subject in its climate website!
So who’s cherrypicking data?
Apparently EVERYBODY with a voice in this topic. Just those above two ‘data sets’ give anyone the ‘data’ they need to endorse whatever position they want – global warming is, or it isn’t – AND they can debate the opposite position at the same time.
The problem is that this is not being explained very well to the generally uninformed masses who aren’t digging into the data & the associated uncertainties. Such sloppy presentations create & sustain skeptics/deniers & believers/alarmists and give both sides ammunition to criticize the other.
If the subject is truly this important, it seems the data ought to be widely available for any interested party to assess with all its strengths & limitations/uncertainties documented clearly.
Statements like:
“We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?”
are unquestionably Anti-Science – especially when that data gets “lost.” But such is the case in the latest scandal involving the “lost” data, which was for much of the planet and upon which the IPCC has depended to a very significant degree (one, of many, stories on this is at: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTBiMTRlMDQxNzEyMmRhZjU3ZmYzODI5MGY4ZWI5OWM= ).
September 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Mr BA? Could you repost the address of the original video for people who came too late and whose curiosity has been piqued? Please?
Thanks.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Here’s the link ioresult.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Very cool: Shaping the drapes.
I hadn’t realised before that this process could be happening right now and we could have actual pictures of it!
BA’s NASA link has some wonderful footage of Prometheus theiving from Saturns’ F-ring.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07712
October 26th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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