GLOBAL IMAGES

Rotating Earth (movie - 348,019 bytes)

And to be politically correct, here's a similar (but very low-res) animation of Mars.

  • View of the Amazon River Basin from the northeast looking southwest.
  • Europe, with old boundaries.
  • Africa and surrounding area in a flat projection.
  • Mideast and Indian Ocean, Nile river.
  • View of south eastern U.S. from over the Atlantic.
  • Looking west toward Australia, the Pacific Ocean floor and volcanic islands.
  • Animation (half-size, 809,813 bytes) showing how tectonic plates & land masses in this region have shifted over the past 100 million years.
  • Full-size (3,775,761 bytes) animation.
  • These two animations courtesy of the University of Hawaii's School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology .

    • Another excellent source of data that can be imported into a variety of GIS, including GRASS, is the USGS.

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