re geosphere image rmalayte grumpy helios nd edu ryan malayter writes article of alt graphics newsgroups alt graphics path news nd edu moliere rmalayte from rmalayte moliere helios nd edu ryan malayter subject geosphere images via ftp message id apr news nd edu sender news news nd edu usenet news system organization university of notre dame notre dame date mon apr gmt does anyone know if a digitized version of the geosphere image is available via ftp for those of you who don t know it is a composite photograph of the entire earth with cloudcover removed i just think it s really cool it was created with government funds and sattelites as a research project so i would assume it s in the public domain this image is copyrighted early in another news group it was being used as a texture map in a planet orbiting simulation that program was being freely distributed but the texture map picture for the earth had to be pulled because of copyright infringement issues mp michael prevost sterling software moffett field ca prevost eos arc nasa gov
