Amazing aerial photo of ground zero

[agallag]

9372x9372x16M jpeg - 14MB: http://kill-9.com/wtc-photo-big.jpg
3124x3124x16M jpeg - 3.6MB: http://kill-9.com/wtc-photo.jpg
1687x1687x16M jpeg - 813KB: http://kill-9.com/wtc-photo-small.jpg
781x781x16M jpeg - 200KB: http://kill-9.com/wtc-photo-tiny.jpg

If you go for the big ones, I highly recommend a good image viewer, such as ACDSee Classic .

[impact]

The largest one absolutely rocks... you can zoom really really really close to the surface. Although, on my pitiful config with only 64MB of RAM, it took quite some time to convert it to resolution independent raster.

[Wulfman]

looks awsome...

I am just waiting for the huge version to load, can somebody tell me what these things in the water in the top right corner are (north of the mini-golf court)?

mfg
wulfman

[Tempest]

Wow, nice detail... Just opened the largest one up in Paint Shop Pro, it says the uncompressed image is 251.2 MBytes. Glad I got myself 640 MB of RAM for Windows XP
What things do you mean Wulfman? If you mean the white dots and stripes, I think they are just some kind of dirt/hair on the camera lens..?

[KRSESQ]

Wulfman:

If I'm looking at the same thing you are (regular rows of white dots in the water) I think those are old pier pilings.

Kevin

[Wulfman]

thx kevin, I think we speak about the same dots!

mfg
wulfman

[DuRaNgO]

and still not as bad as if you were actually there :l

[PowerHungry]

I was there 25 days before the attack. And I have pictures from the top from when I was there when I was a wee lad (9 in 1992). I still have the tickets I bought to take the express elevators to the top. I'm just glad I got to see it in my lifetime.

[SteveC]

Fantastic links Andrew!

I wish I went there before this happened - I've always planned on going there, and it was probably going to be next year... too late now

[Liquid Snake]

Wow, the high-res one is really awesome. I can even pick out J&R Computer World (cool store, BTW). I went there to take a look a couple of weeks after 9/11. Farthest south I got was the corner of the park at the middle right of the photo. Could only see WTC7 from there, the rubble of the towers was behind it.

[agallag]

I was in NYC last summer. Unfortunately, we never got down to the WTC. We only had enough time to see the empire state building, central park and the surrounding area. I really wish I had taken the time to get down there, because I have a feeling that you can't grasp the sheer size of those buildings without seeing it first hand.