lørdag den 24. januar 2009

Review: Earth Envi for iPhone


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App gives you a bird’s-eye view of the planet—though more context would be nice

I can see my neighborhood from space. It’s a bit tricky to spot, and you have to know precisely where to look, but it’s there near the far right-hand side of an extraordinary digital photograph of Southern Californiasnapped in October by a NASA astronaut with a handheld digital camera from the International Space Station.

Bright Lights, Little City: Earth Envi shows you what the Vegas Strip looks like from space, both at night and by day.

I know this because I saw the photo on Earth Envi. And then I downloaded the full-size, high-resolution picture from NASA’s Web site.

Earth Envi by Open Door Networks, serves up Web-based images of the planet on the iPhone and iPod touch. It serves no purpose, really, other than to look at gorgeous images on a small screen.

The app gives you access to classic NASA images from Apollo missions in the 1960s and ’70s, to satellite photos captured this week. Earth Envi is part of the iEnvision group of Web-based photo browsers. It’s one of several space-related Envi apps, which include Astronaut Envi, Planet Envi, Space Envi and Space Envi Deluxe. [...]






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