Here’s a mind-boggling (heh, I first typed “bloggling”) collection of images from space that’s probably old news to most, courtesy of NASA and the Johnson Space Center. There are a variety of ways to search for images. My favorite, if for nothing else then it’s one of the most detailed search pages I’ve seen in a long while, is the Technical Search. If you so choose, in addition to geographic location, you can select the particular space mission the image was taken on, specify longitude and latitude coordinates, minimum and maximum focal length of the camera lens, what camera was used to take the image, and the type of film.
A search on “Japan” resulted in over 3000 images. I did a slightly refined search on “Fuji” and found some nice images, including this one, which I was then able to request a large (and free) 1.8MB file of, just by filling out a simple form. After resizing in Photoshop, it’s now being used as my desktop wallpaper.
(Via M A R K K A)