quick script to show earth imagery in python

gistfile1.py

import requests
from StringIO import StringIO
from pprint import pprint
from PIL import Image
from numpy import array

base = "https://api.data.gov/nasa/planetary/earth"

payload = {
    "lon": -122.066133,
    "lat": 37.419109,
    "size": "large",
    "begin": "2014-07-01",
    "end": "2014-09-01",
    "api_key": "DEMO_KEY"
}

res = requests.get(base, params=payload)
pprint(res.json())
url = res.json()['2014-07-08']
img_string = requests.get(url)
img = Image.open(StringIO(img_string.content))
img.show()
print array(img)