From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: images of earth
Organization: Unocal Corporation
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In article <1993Apr19.144533.6779@cs.ruu.nl> clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar) writes:
>In <C5q0HK.KoD@hawnews.watson.ibm.com> ricky@watson.ibm.com (Rick Turner) writes:
>
>>Look in the /pub/SPACE directory on ames.arc.nasa.gov - there are a number
>>of earth images there. You may have to hunt around the subdirectories as
>>things tend to be filed under the mission (ie, "APOLLO") rather than under	
>>the image subject.	
>>
>For those of you who don't need 24 bit, I got a 32 colour Amiga IFF
>of a cloudless Earth (scanned). Looks okay when mapped on a sphere.
>E-mail me and I'll send it you...

Beware.  There is only one such *copyrighted* image and the company
that generated is known to protect that copyright.  That image took
hundreds of man-hours to build from the source satellite images,
so it is unlikely that competing images will appear soon.
