"Alan Holding" <nomail@nomail> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:web.434f5bb0b8731679e7014cf00@news.povray.org...
> Apologies if this has been posted already.
>
> NASA has released the "next generation" of their Blue Marble image maps of
> the earth: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
>
> The images are higher quality that the previous versions, cover 
> topography,
> bathymetry and the cloudless surface (one for each month of the year).
>
> Resolutions are 5400 by 2700 (8km per pixel) and 21600 by 10800 (2km per
> pixel) and, as usual, are free.
>
> Very nice. :)
>
>

Thank you for the nice news!
Now we're able to do animations that show the yearly cycle of the seasons. 
Let's see who is the first one who does it :)

Thies

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