Attached Link: http://www.oera.net/How2/TextureMaps2.htm

Hi all, I just built an earth and moon shader from the textures you can get at this link for free. If you're into creating planets, these are great! Mark

These are excellent pictures! Thanks for sharing them. :) - Charles

Attached Link: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globegal.shtml

Nice image Mark. There are a few more fantastic Earth maps at this site. Some are absolutly huge (see High-res gallery). Best part is, if you pay your taxes you can feel good about your donations, they are "Free".

I haven't had a good chance to blow something up lately. The moon seemed like a safe place to play with high explosives. ;)

excellent picture, Mark!! :)

These are excellent textures. Thanks for the post! -Kix

This link will remain glued in my Favorites, waiting for a chance to use them (currently working on a fairy tale dwarf's house, so maybe I can make a night version with a moon....). Thanks for the link!

Well, here's my use of the textures. I work for a state agency in California that does satellite broadcasting and on a recent program we had signal loss, so in a show going out Tuesday, we're doing a brief explanation of how our signal gets from San Francisco to the remote viewing sites all over California. Of course, I took this as an opportunity to do a Carrara animation. Here's a still from it -- it's about 10 seconds long and then is cut into other animations showing downlink sites, etc.... The satellite is four primitives and five spline objects. It took about 5 minutes to build. Thanks again to Mark for letting us all in on these! - Dex

Sweet!