<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div> I'm new to GRASS and would like to know how I can work with the NASA Blue Marble dataset.</div><div><br></div><div>I went to the NASA site <a href="http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2429">http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2429</a> but don't know where or how to start. There are some references to using a Bit Torrent client to download a data set. </div><div><br></div><div>Q1. How can I obtain the torrent files for downloading the NASA Blue Marble dataset?</div><div><br></div><div>Q2. Which file format is the NASA Blue Marble dataset stored in?</div><div><br></div><div>Q3. Which grass modules should I use to import the NASA Blue Marble dataset?</div><div><br></div><div>Q4. What is the difference between the NASA onearth WMS server ( <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 23, 229); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/">http://wms.jpl.nasa.gov/</a></span><span style="color: #000000"> ) and the NASA Blue Marble data set server ( <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 10px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 10px; "><a href="ftp://veftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble">ftp://veftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/bluemarble</a> ) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">? Is it the same thing? </span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Elvis Dowson</div></body></html>