These Look Like Abstract Art But You’ll Never Guess What They Really Are
How well do you think you know your home-town? Pretty well, no doubt. And how about your country? We won’t even ask about knowing the planet. Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Sure, we know the continents, the names of the countries and capitals and even how they look like, but even geography enthusiasts will trip and stumble pinpointing where these images were taken.
NASA has an ongoing project for satellite imagery of the Earth, called the Landsat projects. It is the longest and probably the only project of this kin. There are 8 Landsat satellites orbiting our planet right now, with the last one, Landsat 8 launched in February 2013, while the first one orbits Earth since July 1972.Over the years these satellites have produced some pretty amazing images that scientist from different fields use in their work, but the best one has to be Landsat 7 that has eight spectral bands with spatial resolutions ranging from 15 to 60 meters and temporal resolution of 16 days.
What does all that mean? Take a look. This is our planet shot from orbit.
Turpan Depression
Yukon Delta
Von Karman Vortices
Van Gogh from Space
The Rocky Mountain Trench
Syrian Desert
Sands And Seaweed Of Bahamas
Sahara Desert South Of Chad
Roof Of The World
Richat Structure
Parana River
Okavango Delta
Northwest Brazil
Nazca Lines, Peru
Gulf Of Mexico, Mississippi Delta
Meighen Island
Las Vegas
Lena River Delta
Lake Eyre
Lake Carnegie, Australia
Icelandic Tiger
Icefall, Lambert Glacier, Antarctica
Ice Waves
Ice Stars
Himalayas
Guinea-Bissau
Great Barrier Reef
Ghostly Grease Ice
Fedchenko Glacier, Pamir Mountains, Tajikstan
Erongo Massif
Dry River Bed Of Ghadamis River, Libya
Detroit, with Windsor, Ontario across the Windsor River
Colima Volcano
Argentina
Alluvial Fan, China
Algerian Abstract
Alaskas Columbia Glacier
Al Basrah, Iraq
Akpatok Island
Meandering Mississippi
We truly live in a magical place, if we would only see it.
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