NASAImages.org launched last week.  Computerworld puts it this way:

[The site] combines some 21 separately stored and managed NASA imagery collections into a single online resource featuring enhanced search, visual and metadata capabilities.

The new portal, located here, stores more than 140,000 digitized high-resolution NASA photographs, audio and film clips. The launch of the site marks the end of the first phase of a five-year joint NASA-Internet Archive effort to ultimately make millions of NASA’s historic image collection accessible online to the public and to researchers, noted Debbie Rivera, manager of strategic alliance at NASA.

After the jump, a gallery of some of the images that caught my eye:

Go check out the Climate Time Machine, an interactive thingy from NASA.  If you have speakers or headphones you may want to kill the somewhat ominous music that starts by default.  Why do sites still do this?

Choose either Ice Melt, Sea Level, CO2 Emissions or Average Global Temperature from the menu to see — in graphic detail — the world in a world of hurt.