19 Photos Of Earth That Show More Than What Our Eyes See
By Colin Lecher, Popular Science, 4 December 2012.
By Colin Lecher, Popular Science, 4 December 2012.
Really! "Earth As Art," a free e-book from NASA, shows off surreal photos of Earth with light taken outside the visible spectrum. Here are 19 of our favourites.
It's already unlikely we'll get a view as good as the ones collected in "Earth As Art," a new, free e-book from NASA. The collection has years' worth of beautiful satellite photos from around the world, reaching across Africa to Asia to Antarctica. But what's even more interesting, as NASA scientist Lawrence Friedl points out in the introduction, is that "these satellites can measure light outside of the visible range, so the images show more than what is visible to the naked eye." Here are our favourites.
All images by NASA
1. Kalahari Desert, Southern Africa
2. Byrd Glacier, Antarctica
3. Pinacate Volcano Field, Mexico
4. Desolation Canyon, United States
5. Rocky Mountain Trench, Canada
6. Nazca Lines, Peru
7. Mayn River, Russia
8. Wadi Branches, Jordan
9. Akpatok Island, Canada
10. Gravity Waves, Above the Indian Ocean
11. Garden City, United States
12. Vatnajökull Glacier Ice Cap, Iceland
13. Himalayas, Central Asia
14. Kuril Islands, Sea of Okhotsk
15. Meandering Mississippi, United States
16. Great Salt Desert, Iran
17. Carnegie Lake, Australia
18. Edrengiyn Nuruu, Mongolia
19. Paraná River Delta, Argentina
Top image: Rub’ al Khali, Arabian Peninsula
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