Posted by SpaceSightSeer on May 11, 2009 under Collections | 
GRIN - Great Images in NASA
If its an acronym, it must be NASA! GRIN - Great Images in NASA - is one of the more clever. GRIN is maintained by NASA History Office at NASA Headquarters and contains over a thousand of the more popular NASA photos throughout the agency’s history. Images are high resolution in a variety of sizes. Some are selected for historical value, others due to popularity. If you’ve ever wondered where to get a copy of a space picture you’ve seen in the news, this is the first place to look.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on April 27, 2009 under Collections, Unmanned Missions |
Soviet Space Image Catalog
Don P. Mitchell has pulled together hard-to-find space imagery from the Soviet space program. While this is a small collection, it provides a unique historical glimpse into the past. Included are lunar photos datng back to 1959 (Luna-3) along with images returned from Mars, Venus and even Halley’s Comet. Also of interest is a special section, Venera: The Soviet Exploration of Venus.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on April 25, 2009 under Collections, Manned Spaceflight |
Earth from Space
Earth from Space - Astronauts’ Views of the Home Planet bills itself as a “national treasure”. This site features hand selected photographic imagery taken from the unique vantage point offered by space. These images are chosen for their unique perspective and interesting features of our home planet. These pictures can be searched by cities, by features or even by weather patterns.
Hurricane Claudette as seen by the crew of Expedition 7 July 15, 2003
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on April 10, 2009 under Collections, Deep Space Imagery, Manned Spaceflight |
Google Sky
Google Moon
Google Mars
From the people who brought us Google Earth come three cool tools for exploring the beyond.
For Google Sky, Google has teamed with observatories and astronomers around the world to put astronomy at the fingertips of the most casual space fan. Find constellations, planets and distant galaxies through a point-and-click interface. Google Sky is an excellent resource for beginning astronomy for circumstances when a star party might not be feasible.
Google Moon uses images taken by Clementine to display a mosaic of lunar landing sites. Visitors can select a specific Apollo landing site and then navigate to features of interest related to that mission. Several have first-person panoramic views simulating the perspective of our explorer astronauts.
Image: NASA
Google Mars represents the latest addition to the family and uses the same tools found in Google Earth - you can zoom in and out, change the camera view, or spin the entire planet with a click of the mouse. A search box allows you to quickly locate interesting features. Type in the word “face” in the search box, for example, to locate two of the more popular features of the red planet – the “face on Mars” and the “happy face crater.”
There is also an option to “View in 3D with Mars in Google Earth. Through this view, one can apply antique historic maps of Mars or “Live from Mars” streaming from NASA’s Mars Odyssey.
Tags: apollo, astronomy, face on mars, google, happy face crater, images, mars, moon, photos, pictures, sky
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on April 7, 2009 under Collections, Deep Space Imagery |
ESO Public Image Archive
ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organization in Europe. Created in 1962, ESO provides state-of-the-art research facilities to astronomers and astrophysicists.
This gallery includes a stunning array of images including objects in our own solar system as well as deep space objects. ESO operates telescopes at three sites, including the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal.
Colossal Cosmic Eye
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on April 6, 2009 under Collections |
100 Hours of Astronomy
If you missed it, 100 Hours of Astronomy took place this weekend featuring over 1500 events and activities around the globe. There are over 50 galleries of images posted showing the weekend’s activities. Most of these galleries show people participating in watch parties around the globe. I’ll be updating this post with links to some of the better astronomy images.
Solar Physics Group (Flickr Gallery)
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on March 22, 2009 under Collections, Manned Spaceflight |
Space Story
Story Musgrave, the only astronaut to have flown on all five space shuttles, retired from NASA following a career spanning 30 years and 25 million miles in orbit. Today, Story remains a popular speaker and a consultant to Disney’s Imagineering Group. On his site, Story presents three digital slideshows Faces of Earth, The Heavens, and Humanity each with mutliple chapters featuring images from the unique perspective of a modern explorer.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on March 6, 2009 under Collections |
NASAImages.org
NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ), a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers. The Internet Archive receives no financial support from NASA. The image collections are presented in five categories: aeronautics, solar system, earth, astronauts, and universe.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on March 2, 2009 under Collections |
NASA Image Exchange
The NASA Image Exchange is not an actual image collection, but a multimedia search engine. It allows you to search for photos, videos and audio clips from several NASA archives in a single search. Not every NASA collection is included, however, nor does the site disclose which are included and which are not. Sometimes it can be difficult to find keywords that work. The search seems to work best with very general search terms. Regardless, it can be a useful resource for the space image hunter.
Posted by SpaceSightSeer on February 26, 2009 under Collections |
The Regional Planetary Image Facility
The Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS) at the National Air and Space Museum hosts an incredible collection of over 300,000 space-related images. Only a small sampling of these images are actually available on the website, however. Nevertheless, it is a good resource for basic images of the bodies of our solar system.
