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Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope
From the world of competitive astronomical websites (isn’t the Internet grand?) comes this new offering from Microsoft, WorldWide Telescope. Like others before it Microsoft’s new offering allows users to explore planets and other celestial objects. You can also view/track objects from any place on earth and in any point in time. Of course as you might expect from Microsoft there’s more going on than that. There is a lot of imagery from NASA including the Mars rovers, Hubble telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. There are also ‘tours’ set up by expert astronomers or you can even save your own ‘5 year missions’.
Like with Google’s ‘The Sky’ or the open source Stellarium users must first download the free WorldWide Telescope software from Microsoft (windows only).
WorldWide Telescope (via BBC News)
Interactive 360 Degree Panoramas
Interactive Panoramas (or VR Photography) is a relatively new media that creates a panoramic view that immerse the viewer ‘inside’ the image. This is far far more advanced than the kinds of panoramas you can make with your digital camera and stitching software. Using your mouse you can view from side to side or top to bottom and all points in between of some fantastic imagery taking by Interactive Panorama photographers from all over the world and collected and displayed by Hans Nyberg a commercial photographer in Denmark.
There are over 400 stunning interaftive images of every thing from the Oslo Opera House to Death Valley, from the Oscars to Carnival In Rio. A truly stunning collection in a format that’s as close as you can get to being there from your PC.
The World Sunlight Map
Two things we really like at Net-Warriors are cool images and cool technology and here’s an example of both. The World Sunlight map uses a combination of several satellite images, a DOD program that maps city lights and some very clever implementation to provide a computer generated approximation using real images to show what the earth looks like from space at the moment.
You can choose either a flat map or globe view and a few other variations. You can even embed it on your own web page if you wish.
The best way to summarize this site to quote the author himself - ‘While less impressive than actually being into orbit, this is much more accessible to most of us.’
(also if you have a little geek in you check out how it works).
A Picture A Year For 31 Years
No doubt most net-warriors have seen at least one of the ‘picture a day’ for X number of years videos that have become increasingly popular. But to date we’ve yet to find an earlier adopter than Diego Goldberg, a professional photographer who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina and who has been taking passport style photographs of his family in the exact same deadpan pose for over 30 years.
The family is very dedicated to the once a year shot which is taken every June 17th whether everyone is in town or not. And while 30 images aren’t enough frames to make a spiffy video, it stands as one of the most amazing and detailed record of a families visual history I’ve ever seen.
