I just discovered the “Blue Marble” imagery from NASA. This is the same imagery that is used to drape the globe in NASA’s software program “World Wind.” After looking through the website, I found that they have the links up to download the 21,000 X 21,000 tif file of the entire earth at 1km per pixel. I can’t wait to download it! Once I have it, I can snag imagery of any country around the world for one of my renderings, which is nice because I just got a request to make a rendering using Scotland, but didn’t have the imagery. VERY EXCITED :-)

See related Blue Marble imagery:

• Blue Marble: Globes (above)
• Blue Marble: Land Surface, Ocean Color, Sea Ice, and Clouds
• Blue Marble: Land, Ocean Color, Sea Ice, and City Lights
• Blue Marble: Clouds
• Blue Marble: Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography
• Blue Marble: Animations