On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space.
Each colored box represents a certain number of megapixels. The numbers along the top and left side are print dimensions in inches at 300ppi. The visual version of The Megapixel Myth at http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm — “A 3 MP camera pretty much looks the same as a 6 MP camera, even when blown up to 12 x 18!”
Using some new mathematics and a silicon chip covered with hundreds of thousands of mirrors the size of a single bacterium, engineers at Rice University have come up with a camera that captures just one point of light several thousand times in rapid succession.
Pretty amazing photograph. It’s high res, so it’ll take a bit to load.
Northwest of Los Angeles, the Day Fire was churning out a thick, snake-like plume of smoke on September 17, 2006. The human-caused fire started on September 4 in mixed brush and scattered timber in the Los Padres and Angeles National Forests and the Sespe Wilderness. As of September 18, the 60,589-acre fire was only about 15% contained.
This NASA satellite photo shows the ancient city of Angkor Wat emerging from the Cambodian rain forest. Visible are large structures, roads, moats, water supply and surrounding habitations and farms.
