New NASA Image Portal July 28, 2008
Posted by astroed in Astronomy.Tags: Astronomy, images, NASA, space
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NASA have just released a new image portal, NASA Images. It:
is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ), a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.
The interface is uncluttered with the key structure providing you a choice of the Universe, Solar System, Earth and Astronauts for media. Below this is an interactive Spaceflight Timeline going from Explorer in 1958 to the ISS in 2010 at present.
The site seemed to be struggling last night, possibly due to it being mentioned on Slashdot. I was able to access it easily enough this morning. The search toll seems to work well and you are able to customise your display to some extent. A search provides a range of media including images, movies and animations.Moving the mouse over an thumbnail brings up a media summary which is quite handy.
If you register (free) you can create your own media groups and presentations. You are also able to embed these or other content in applications, blogs or websites using the web widgets tool. I’ll need to explore this further.
This looks like becoming an essential first stop for media for NASA missions and discoveries by their space-based observatories.
