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NASA's Earth-Sun Science Outreach Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center have created a series of 12 monthly, cloud-free imagery mosaics using MODIS satellite data at 500 m spatial resolution. You can learn more about the project by visiting the official NASA site, where you will find details of the technology, sample images, download sites, and various mpg visualizations. We have taken those mosaics and draped them over global terrain data at 500 m, and provide access to them in several ways.

To fly around them in TerraExplorer or TerraExplorer Pro, you can click on one of the links below. These applications were created as part of an NSF REU program awarded to ARSC; intern Luis Perez provided created the Earth Models here and Peter Prokein created the Applications that use them.

To download these 3D applications onto your hard disk, click here (note: they are about 3GB each, but everything you need to run them without an internet connection is there).

To fly around them in a custom web viewer we created which you can cut and paste into your web page, click here.

To view the January image in a mac/unix viewer we're still developing, click here. Note that while you can get 3D perspective with this tool, there is no full motion flight capability.

To fly around in a really cool application that allows you to fade between the months, created by Chuck Stein at GeoFusion, click here.

To see the World Wind 3D Blue Marble application, click here.

To see WorldWindCentral's Blue Marble application, click here.

To see WorldWindCentral's Google Earth application, click here.

To download the raw images, click here to download them from us; we have our own download site going courtesy of ARSC that may be faster than trying to get them through NASA.. The higher resolution files are arranged in tiles, which you must stitch together yourself. You can also download them from NASA's Blue Marble site.

Copyright notices:

TerraExplorer, TerraExplorer Pro, TerraGate, TerraPhoto, and TerraBuilder are registered trademarks of Skyline Software Inc.

GoogleEarth, GoogleEarth Plus, and GoogleEarth Pro are registered trademarks of Google.

Note: This material is based upon work supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

No warranty: Data is provided "as is," without any warranty whatsoever, including but not limited to any warranty as to performance, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose.

Liability: The entire risk as to the results of the use of this data is assumed by the user. EarthSLOT is not responsible for any interpretation or conclusions made by those who acquire or use it. EarthSLOT shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, compensatory or consequential damages or third-party claims resulting from the use of this data, even if EarthSLOT has been advised of the possibility of such potential loss or damage. In states that do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, this data may not be used.

(c) 2004 Matt Nolan. Please contact us with questions, comments, or compliments.