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Globes and Global Relief Images

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ETOPO2 Images

GLOBE Images

World Maps with "Stable Lights" (cities, some villages, gas flares in oil fields, etc.) from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

JPEG/TIFF: coarse 40 arc-minute grid
JPEG/TIFF: 10 arc-minute grid
JPEG/TIFF: 4 arc-minute grid
JPEG/TIFF: 3 arc-minute grid
JPEG/TIFF: 3 arc-minute grid, slightly different rendition of stable lights
Images of the continents and other large areas (GLOBE elevations only). Some with Stable Lights (see above), others without.
JPEG/TIFF: Africa
JPEG/TIFF: Australia
JPEG/TIFF: Europe
JPEG/TIFF: Europe (with lights)
JPEG/TIFF: South America
JPEG/TIFF: Conterminous 48 USA states
JPEG/TIFF: Conterminous 48 USA states (with lights)
JPEG/TIFF: Alaska

Spinning Relief Globes & Icosahedron

.MOV: 640x640 Rotating Relief Globe with Lights (83.4MB)
.MOV: 640x640 Lower Resolution Rotating Relief Globe with Lights (7.5MB)
.MOV: 400x400 Rotating Globe with Modis Land and 2 minute Bathymetry (51MB)
.MOV: 400x400 Rotating Globe with Modis Land, Bathymetry, and Lights (57MB)
.GIF: 200x200 Spinning Globe (black background) (1.1MB)
.GIF: 193x193 Spinning Globe (white background) (300KB)
.GIF: 193x193 Still Globe (white background)

More Global Images, Cut-and-Folds, Slide Sets, & Posters

PDF: Global Relief Origami Cut-and-fold (2.4MB)
PDF: Global Relief Dodecahedron Cut-and-fold (12MB)
PDF: Sept 2004 Low-Res Views of the Globe Poster (10MB)
PDF: Sept 2004 Med-Res Views of the Globe Poster (44MB)
PDF: Sept 2004 Full-Res Views of the Globe Poster (106MB)
PDF: Sept 2006 Updated Low-Res Views of the Globe Poster (2.3MB)
PDF: Sept 2006 Updated Full-Res Views of the Globe Poster (54MB)
PDF: Sept 2006 Updated Low-Res Views of the Globe with MODIS land imagery (2.2MB)
PDF: Sept 2006 Updated Full-Res Views of the Globe with MODIS land imagery (46MB)

JPEG/TIFF: ETOPO2v2/MODIS Globes, multiple formats
JPEG/TIFF: 2006 Views of the GLOBE Poster, multiple formats

Icosahedron: Cut-and-fold Global Relief Downloadable PDF or printed version
Poster: Updated Surface of the Earth Downloadable PDF or printed Poster
Slide Set: Downloadable Images

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