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Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). A service of USRA, sponsored by NASA Goddard. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. Browse EPODs by Related Fields.

! The Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG): Rare Books from the MBG Library. The goal of this project is to digitize beautifully illustrated and botanically significant books in order to make them available to an international audience. Use the menus at the top of this page to select a book to browse through, or to see the volumes available from a particular author. You can also search for illustrations by scientific name by clicking on the Search button. Excellent!

NASA: Visible Earth. The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. Images are accompanied by a description and information on file size and format, usually TIF and JPEG. Excellent!

NASA: BLUE MARBLE. View of the Earth from space. Useful as introductory slide for a presentation.

NASA: Planetary Photojournal. This service provide easy access to the publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs. The system database is currently populated with approximately 910 images; more are being added every day. Great pictures and info on the planets and their moons.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Photo Collection. Over 5,000 public domain photographs and images, dating from the early 1800´s to the present.

PhotoDisc. 50.000 downloadable images, free of charge.

Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, "Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte", newly edited by Moritz Willkomm, about 1887; (web site hosted by Kurt Stüber, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Collection of historic and classical biology books): Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs nach dem Linné'schen System. In German. With 54 colored plates (650 figures)!

John Walker, Satellite data provided by The Living Earth Inc./Earth Imaging: Earth and Moon Viewer. You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.

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