Links to some favorite satellite images...

The local neighborhood:

• Skylab4 image of northern New Mexico, SL4-89-008.
• Landsat image of northern New Mexico.
• Southern Rocky Mountains, New Mexico--south-facing Space Shuttle image from June 1991; comes with a detailed caption. Technical detail on the same image.
• Valles Caldera from STS040
• Valles Caldera from STS062
• Browse for others at Earth in Space --clickable map of the best of the available Space Shuttle images.

• Volcano World's Apollo9 images of the Taos Plateau and the Jemez Mountains.
• (Current) close-up on Rocky Mountain Region, GOES-8 satellite image, from NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research).
• AVHRR--Advanced High-Resolution Radiometry--image of New Mexico from the John Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory.
• Local copy of a Space Shuttle image centered on White Sands and the Valley of Fires. The image available from NASA's Earth in Space covering the same area comes from a different shuttle mission: White Sands, New Mexico.
• A space shuttle image centered on the Magdalena Mountains. The Rio Grande and Socorro Mountains are visible to the lower right of the Magdalenas, and the much larger San Mateo Mountains to the upper left.
• Mystery image of New Mexico taken by the Space Shuttle, captioned #2664 (USA-NM; Sangre de Cristo Mts.) from the Space Shuttle Earth Observation Photography Database. A web interface keeps changing its URL, presently at Space Shuttle Earth Observation Project Database.
• Albuquerque, apparently STS056-109-20
• We're always hoping to find other NM images. Check this page now and then, and meanwhile...
• not electronic imagery at all, but a map too beautiful to pass without mention, Santa Fe River Watershed, from the Forest Guardians: Gallery of Maps.

The whole globe:

• University of Hawaii GOES-8 southern Plains & GOES-10 East Pacific Hawaii to Mainland
• U. of Wisconsin-Madison receives and posts the GOES-8 North America image twice per hour and Western Hemisphere image once daily. For other images see their Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Real-time Data Page. Also try NCAR's Real-time Weather Data Satellite Page. Their latest Albuquerque visible satellite image is a recent product, and zeroes right in on us.
• Aria (Arizona Regional image archive).
• The GOES-9 image (Pacific) reaches from the western part of North America west beyond Alaska. ("GOES"--"Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellite") has an interactive image page which now includes the new GOES-12 satellite, images just beginning to be obtained Fall, 2001. GOES Project Science Page.

• The Atlantic & European hemisphere comes to us via METEOSAT Weather Satellite Images from The University of Nottingham. View the hemishere with the landmasses sketched in via the Nottingham atlantic image, or a small crisp hemisphere without landmass markings, at Eumetsat (choose Meteosat Images, choose Static JPG for format, visible channel; well worthwhile.)
• Spin your mental globe to Japan-Australia via the GMS-5 hemisphere image, live every hour or so. It's only daytime there when it's nighttime here. To choose a daylight image no matter what time it is there now, go to High resolution full disk visible .gif image. Pick a big one. (***Huge*** files when that side of the globe is fully illuminated; worth waiting for.) Alternate access to GMS-5.
• Lots more ways of looking at the earth: Pictures of Earth, part of Bill Arnett's The Nine Planets
• DEMs -- Digital Elevation Map server, now at Unisys, formerly WXP (Purdue)
• Today's weather unacceptable? Try an especially beautiful time, 4 PM CST on July 14, 1994...
• The first time we saw it: The Apollo 11 Earth, 1969.
• Classic full-earth poster image: The Apollo 17 Earth, 1972