Nasa is using BitTorrent for their “visible earth”project

Written by Ernesto on January 27, 2006 

Nasa is using BitTorrent for a while now. Recently however, they started a new project called “visible earth”. This massive image library offers several high quality pictures, and NASA is using BitTorrent to distribute these images.
So if you ever wanted to download a 2.9GB pic, here’s your chance.

Nasa is using BitTorrent for a while now. Recently however, they started a new project called “visible earth”. This massive image library offers several high quality pictures, and NASA is using BitTorrent to distribute these images.

So if you ever wanted to download a 2.9GB pic, here’s your chance.

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13 Responses

1 Jan 31, 2006 at 08:23 by wiak

the ‘photo’ is not 2.9 GB its 10.1 GB (10,879,774,720 bytes)
w00t !!!!!:-D

2 Jan 31, 2006 at 16:29 by lexx

where you find this torrent file with photos on 10.1 GB i see just this http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//7100/world.topo.bathy.200401.3×86400x43200.bin.gz.torrent

3 Jan 31, 2006 at 20:59 by Mike

I’ve downloaded all but 2 pieces of this (512kb) using Azureus. These ones are failing over and over again (#2494 and #2968). If anyone knows whether the problem is on my end or relates to the torrent itself, please leave a comment.

4 Jan 31, 2006 at 23:14 by Mike

Hmm, it seems to have finally got them.

5 Feb 02, 2006 at 20:44 by Speaker

why are there so many files of the same name but with different sizes?

6 Feb 03, 2006 at 10:43 by Stoof

I am loading on the 2,9GB pic and I’ve already loaded a 102MB pic, but I can’t open it. How can i open it??
Thanks!

7 Feb 05, 2006 at 01:58 by Speaker

Is there only ONE picture (that 2,9 GB one) or are there many pictures (like “earth lights” or “night earth”??)??

Aren’t there all packed in one archive?

8 Feb 10, 2006 at 20:36 by zugu

And what are we supposed to open the image file with ?

9 Feb 11, 2006 at 08:55 by Mr.Subz

Open the Image File with Photoshop, an 10 MB Image Eats my 1 GIG Ram, I’ve Never Tried with 2.9 GB one :p, Maybe They’ll open Only in NASA’s SuperComputers

10 Feb 15, 2006 at 21:29 by Speaker

Are ALL of those files the same picture (the earth) but with different qualities? Or do they depict something else?

11 Feb 18, 2006 at 16:37 by UpsetSheep

Its all cool and fine to download a 2.9GIG photo. But what u ever gonna use it for? lol

12 Feb 19, 2006 at 13:11 by Speaker

Are ALL of those files the same picture (the earth), but with different qualities? Or do they depict something else?

13 Feb 25, 2006 at 23:26 by Speaker

Why can’t I open the images with the HTTP feed? I click on the link, and then it directs me to the page where the image should be shown, but then it stops loading, and the image never appears. By the way are ALL of those files the same picture (the earth), but with different qualities? Or do they depict something else?

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