In honor of my recent science fiction book review, and because it is a cool picture, here is a link to an astronaut self portrait from outside the space shuttle: nasa.gov image. The detail in the image is awesome. I don’t know about the other browswers, but the image can be clicked in Firefox to see a full size version.
The picute is part of NASA’s Return to Flight web offering. There is an extended Flash-based feature covering all different aspects of the mission that may be worth checking out.
I like the Image Gallery better than the Flash. Some of the images are just spectacular.
The level of detail in the full size pictures is incredible. Today’s (8/5/2005) Image of the Day is so good at full size that one can easily read some of the identification numbers on the tiles that cover the space shuttle.
Tipped off to check out the NASA site by Boing Boing.