EarthObservatoryHomepage by Clément Haëck
Change the homepage to the latest image from NASA Earth Observatory
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The high-resolution image is displayed in full width.
A small caption gives the title and links to the corresponding Earth Observatory article. Click to zoom-in, and click-drag to scroll around.
The latest entry information is found with the RSS feed. The high-resolution image url is found by scraping the article page. This is saved to local storage to speed subsequent accesses as much as possible.
Error on zoom: error in fetching the image may result in a blank screen when zooming, refreshing the cache should do the trick (Ctrl + F5 or Ctrl + Shift + R).
Disclaimer: this is amateur code, I barely know what I am doing
This is not affiliated with NASA.
A small caption gives the title and links to the corresponding Earth Observatory article. Click to zoom-in, and click-drag to scroll around.
The latest entry information is found with the RSS feed. The high-resolution image url is found by scraping the article page. This is saved to local storage to speed subsequent accesses as much as possible.
Error on zoom: error in fetching the image may result in a blank screen when zooming, refreshing the cache should do the trick (Ctrl + F5 or Ctrl + Shift + R).
Disclaimer: this is amateur code, I barely know what I am doing
This is not affiliated with NASA.
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Required permissions:
- Access your data for earthobservatory.nasa.gov
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- Version
- 2.3
- Size
- 42.2 KB
- Last updated
- 2 months ago (Aug 29, 2025)
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- MIT License
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