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ESA's image of the week archive is nice. A lot of the pictures are false color but you can sort by number of views. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Sets/Earth

by shpx 8y ago

ESA's image of the week archive is nice. A lot of the pictures are false color but you can sort by number of views. http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Sets/Earth_observation_image_of_the_week http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Sets/Earth_observation_imag... Planet.com lets you download like 70 highres sample images of ports, farms, oil rigs and cities if you give them a fake email address. https://info.planet.com/download-free-high-resolution-skysat-image-samples/ https://info.planet.com/download-free-high-resolution-skysat... NASA's composite photos of the Earth at night are classic https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/NightLights https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/NightLights related, there's Aerial which lets you use videos of the earth from Apple TV as your macbook's screensaver. The readme links to a linux and Windows port.

9dev 8y ago
Thank you for these links, didn't know the ESA gallery yet. However, they don't provide a 360deg view - to compose one of these dynamic wallpapers, you'd need sixteen shots, ideally from the same perspective. That way, your screen would show the earth as it'd look right now, just from a little further up :-)
- 100ideas 8y ago
  How are you thinking of making the wallpaper live? Poll the server every 15 minutes for a new image, and if there is one, use @mczachurski's script to regenerate the background image .heic file?
  - 9dev 8y ago
    Initially, I only intended to find images roughly showing Europe (I don't travel that regularly), but hey, that'd be even cooler! Might even create a little script so everyone can get a dynamic background of their personal earth position! Polling every ~85 minutes would be fine though, since the 16 images are cycled across the day every 1.5 hours.
100ideas 8y ago
There's also the ISS HDEV livestream from the space station. The stream is only up when the ISS is on the Earth's daylight side, so ~45 min of its ~90 min orbit. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/ https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/

by shpx 8y ago

9dev 8y ago

Thank you for these links, didn't know the ESA gallery yet. However, they don't provide a 360deg view - to compose one of these dynamic wallpapers, you'd need sixteen shots, ideally from the same perspective. That way, your screen would show the earth as it'd look right now, just from a little further up :-)

100ideas 8y ago
How are you thinking of making the wallpaper live? Poll the server every 15 minutes for a new image, and if there is one, use @mczachurski's script to regenerate the background image .heic file?
- 9dev 8y ago
  Initially, I only intended to find images roughly showing Europe (I don't travel that regularly), but hey, that'd be even cooler! Might even create a little script so everyone can get a dynamic background of their personal earth position! Polling every ~85 minutes would be fine though, since the 16 images are cycled across the day every 1.5 hours.

100ideas 8y ago

There's also the ISS HDEV livestream from the space station. The stream is only up when the ISS is on the Earth's daylight side, so ~45 min of its ~90 min orbit. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/ https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/