Wallpaper designs

From the backyard looking up, to outer space looking back, these desktop views are both familiar and spectacular...

Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
(640 x 480)

Time-elapsed photo of Mercury in evening sky
(800 x 600)

Shuttle launch shot from nearby foliage
(1024 x 768)

Space shuttle Atlantis launch at night
(1024 x 768)

Space Shuttle Endeavor lift-off at night
(1024 x 768)

Another shot of an Endeavor night launch
(1024 x 768)

Time elapsed photo of shuttle launch
(1024 x 768)

Imax Space Shuttle image
(640 x 480)

International Space Station
(1024 x 768)

Alpha 3 satellite above Earth
(1024 x 768)

Satellite image of the Great Lakes area
(1024 x 768)

Eastern US after Jan. 27, 2000 snowstorm
(832 x 624)

View of the United States at night
(1024 x 768)

Eastern Hemisphere view at night
(1024 x 768)

View of Earth from Apollo 17
(711 x 533)

To set image as wallpaper, click on thumbnail to bring up full size image in separate window, then right click on full size image to bring up a little menu, choose "Set as wallpaper..." from menu (in Internet Explorer). If you have a Windows 98 or later OS on your computer, you should be able to use the "stretch" option to compensate for the difference between your screen resolution size and the picture size, if one exists. Most pictures were kept at the largest reasonable resolution size to preserve the image quality.

Earth, and the Immediate Vicinity