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netcraft
Too bad there isn't a way to download them all in a zip!
dcre
Beautiful pictures. Would be nice to have more resolutions. E.g., retina Macbook Pro is 2560×1600.
Osmium
15'' is 2880×1800. Most NASA images are high resolution enough that they should be available.

Related, but if you like the Mars HiRISE images I can highly recommend this book:

http://aperture.org/shop/books/this-is-mars-books

It's nothing that you can't find elsewhere, but it's really something else to see them printed in large-format. They're absolutely phenomenal photographs. What got to me is the sheer variety in the Martian landscape. Really incredible.

rokkeds
Thanks for feedback! Retina resolution wallpapers for desktop and images ZIP-archive will be added soon. I promise you =)
dublinben
It's too bad how Apple-centric these resolutions are.
hipster_robot
Apple-centric resolutions. I can tell by the pixels.
helipad
I'll say thank you, and not make any further requests.
secfirstmd
Is there a way to have a Mac desktop picture change on a daily basis to one of these?

Amazing work BTW!

rokkeds
Mac os app is in development, so don't forget to check it soon)
addandsubtract
1. Download wallpapers 2. Open Desktop & Screen Saver settings 3. Click the + icon and add the folder the wallpapers were saved to 4. Check "Change picture: Every day"
cultavix
yea these are awesome, i collect wallpapers... I'm on page 5 and I've already downloaded about 8 of them... thank you ;)
tekni5
Nice collection, but please don't watermark wallpapers. Also would be nice to see the exact source of these images and the license.
Raphmedia
This is a very nice website. Consider adding a grid view with thumbnail so we don't have to go through all the pages. Infinite loading too, perhaps?
saganus
Very nice collection, although I think it has a bit too many martian terrain ones and not enough of other types. I love martian terrains but they all seems to look like abstract art after a few images. How about moon shots and other stuff? EVA's, etc?

Still, very nice!

rokkeds
Pics from Hubble, Cassini-Huygens and Rosetta are coming. Stay tuned!
mct
Adding support for categories/tags would be awesome, too :-)
AceJohnny2
Similar to this, I highly recommend the Google Chrome plugin "Earth View from Google Maps", which replaces the new tab display with a stunning satellite picture of some area of Earth. I occasionally let myself get distracted from whatever search I was going to do to follow the Google Maps link to check out the area.

It's like the geek's version of the Blue Marble Effect [2] ;)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go... [2] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/2013/0...

kbody
I think I just exhausted your bandwidth :P

* Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

rokkeds
It started working again :)