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[FordPrefect]

Hey all,

I've recently stumbled across this very interesting sample of an Earth texture map, which shows the colour band shaded by atmospheric effects found on this private website:

http://oera.net/How2/TextureMaps.htm

The one I am highly interested in is the so called "Earth Texture Atmospherical" (top row, middle). For what I need it for, the map is fantastic.
I was searching desperately high and low on the net, Blue Marble websites and all, but couldn't find exactly this map in higher resolution than the 2500 x 1250 provided on that private website.

Does anyone know where I might get exactly this map in resolutions up to 32784 x 16392 pixels? Any help or suggestions are more than welcome!


Thanks a lot.

Cheers.

[djellison]

Have you tried Emailing them Bjorn...given that you produce 'good stuf' - I'm sure they'd be prepared to pop something onto an FTP for you.

Doug

[Bjorn Jonsson]

Things are going a bit better now, a whopping 2.3 MB downloaded over a period of 40 minutes with only 282 hours to go (and that's just for downloading the January file).

Despite this I'll email them now. Wonder how they'll react because I want *everything* on the Monthly Global Images page...

EDIT: By poking around a bit I found that these maps can also be downloaded from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2355 (the "Details and More Imagery" pages). The download speed is decent (probably about 1000 times faster than via BitTorrent).