If you shoot a satellite into space, give it a camera and nothing better to do, it takes really great photos of earth.
Some highlights: Ireland, complete with aqua-coloured plankton blooms, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Great Barrier Reef.
(Found via metafilter)
These photos of the Earth taken from space are amazing. And so beautiful! More may be found at NASA’s Earth Observatory site.
Related: International Year of Astronomy ’09.
Animoto.com is a very cool site that allows users to upload photos, set some music, and create a dynamic slideshow. The site somehow analyses your images and sets it to the music selected. It’s free if you just want to make brief clip, and there is a lot of music to choose from.
Here’s one we made using photos taken during the SubText08 events – it only took about ten minutes to create:
