NASA Image Archive Will Soon be Accessible Online
NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers.
Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With this partnership, those collections will be made available through a single, searchable “one-stop-shop” archive of NASA imagery.
Under the terms of this five-year agreement, Internet Archive will digitize, host and manage still, moving and computer-generated imagery produced by NASA. In the first year, Internet Archive will consolidate NASA’s major imagery collections. In the second year, digital imagery will be added to the archive. In the third year, NASA and Internet Archive will identify analog imagery to be digitized and added to this online collection.
Source: GovTech
+ Visible Earth
A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
+ Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
+ KSC Shuttle Photo and Video Archive
+ NASA Human Space Flight Web, Multimedia Gallery
+ Several Additional NASA Imagery Databases
+ Of course, one project we’ve mentioned many times on ResourceShelf is World Wind. It’s open source and was started at NASA. It’s a 3D digital globe with numerous add-ons.
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