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I don't know how many of you follow the sci.space.* groups, but this
was posted a week or so ago..

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The Image Sciences Division of NASA's Johnson Space Center is pleased
to announce that our digital image collection is now accessible on the 
Internet.  This collection includes press release and Earth observation

images from the manned space program from Mercury to the present.  All 
press release images (c. 9,000 image files) are currently available, 
but for Earth observation only the STS-60 images have been loaded 
(c. 4,500 image files).  These images can be accessed using the File 
Transfer Protocol (FTP), Gopher, and World Wide Web (WWW) information 
sharing protocols over the Internet.  Each of these protocols will 
provide access to our JPEG images (average 40k each) and the text files

that describe them.

In the next year we plan to load an additional 200,000 Earth
observation 
images.  We will also load each mission's press release images as they 
are selected.  

URLs:
     FTP://139.169.29.11   (login as anonymous)
     Gopher://139.169.29.11:70/
     http://139.169.29.11/html/home.htm

Further information regarding the availability of these images through 
the Internet can be obtained from the Customer Services Office in the 
Image Sciences Division.  Contact Kevin Marsh at
(KMarsh@ja6.jsc.nasa.gov).

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The server had been kind of flakey last week, I think they're still
working some of the bugs out of it. But, I've been able to log into it
a couple of times and there are *a lot* of images! All seem to have a
.txt caption file so you can check the image before you download it.

The images are 72dpi jpegs. Ok you Saturn people - have at it! It'd be
nice to have a subset of the images which deal specifically with launch
vehicles at sunsite. As soon as the server becomes reliable, I'll see
about doing that.

--
tim harincar             Then Harold remembered how the government
soc1070@vx.cis.umn.edu   has fun in the desert. It shoots off rockets.
                         -Crockett Johnson, _Harold's Trip to the Sky_
                          [More Adventures with the Purple Crayon]