Are any of the images of the Earth taken by planetary probes available on CD-ROM?
Images of the Earth from the Galileo spacecraft as Raw Experimenter Data Records (REDRs) are available for the first Earth flyby, which occurred in late 1990. This CD-ROM set will eventually include all of the Galileo cruise phase imaging (all images from the Solid-State Imager prior to Galileo’s main mission at Jupiter), including those of Venus, the Earth, the Moon, and the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. The data for the Earth-2 flyby have recently arrived (Feb. 1995) and are now available. More information on CD-ROMs available from the NSSDC can be found in the NSSDC CD-ROM Catalog. URL: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cd-rom/ • What about Earth Science data taken by Earth orbiters? Earth science data is slowly being transitioned out from NSSDC, although some data are still available. Check the Earth Science Data in Transition Page for more information.