Thies Heidecke wrote:
> 
> 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 :)

Actually for this you would need shorter intervals - half a second of 
animation for a whole year is not exactly very useful...

The processing used for generating these looks quite impressive, i first 
wondered how they managed to generate a more or less cloud free image 
from only a month of data - the usual 32day composites contain 
significant cloud cover esp. in tropical regions.  You can find details 
on this and other processing aspects on:

http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/nasa/bmng/bmng.pdf

BTW an early test render (using the 2km variant) can be found on:

http://www.imagico.de/files/bmng1.jpg

(physically impossible BTW - notice the lighting combined with the 
january image...)

Christoph

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