Link(s) of the Day: Earth imagery

Not only Google (and Microsoft) can deliver satelite photos. NASA can too. Its World Wind application does even predates Google Earth by quite same time. While for many regions the NASA data has a worse resolution than Google's, World Wind has acces to the newest data from MODIS and does also offer overlays from SVS. The first means, that you can see current intersting phenomea like hurricans, sand storms and volcanoes, the latter offers many overlays of the globe showing everything from sea temperature to signs of human inhabitation. It has also the undeniable benefit of eing Open Source and having a community.

A realated link is NASA's Visible Earth site which offers quite a lot of stunning statelite imagery. (Good for making posters!)