Chris Kitts suggested links:
- Article on new NASA administrator's feelings about wanting to cut costs and about wanting to improve nuclear propulsion:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/02/04/nasa.budget/index.html
- Link to the BADGER service which has imagery of the Bay Area - you can get interesting close-ups of your house!
http://badger.parl.com
- JPL's video site is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/earth/west_index.html
This has the California flyby video I showed with extra info about the Shuttle mission, etc. There are also links for a new Salt Lake City olympic flyby, and some other great stuff. The Shuttle mission flybys use 30 meter resolution
- For a comparison, check out the following link which has a photos at 1 meter resolution from the Ikonos satellite - this is of the Olympic venue as well:
http://space.com/news/olympics_flyover_020208.html
- Some other interesting articles on satellite applications:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/newyork_faults_000321.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/volcano_monitor_010807-1.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/gps_fooled_010822-1.html
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