MetaFilter posts tagged with Earth and Photos

Kazakhstan and Beyond!

Artw — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:43:51 -0800

In Pictures: Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Earth and its Peoples, over 100 years ago

filthy light thief — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:16:54 -0800

Take a photographic journey into the past with Illustrated Past, which offers glimpses of life in Brittany, a trip to Tunis and Algiers, scenes of Dutch daily life. These examples are excerpts from the Dutch book, De Aarde en haar Volken (Project Gutenberg), or The Earth and its Peoples (Google auto-translation). Where the 1906 edition featured photos from around the world, the 1877 edition featured etchings (Gutenberg; Google translation).

♪ "So kiss me and smile for me. Tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go..." ♫

zarq — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:17:13 -0800

Inspired by Andrew Sullivan's recent post on views outside airplane windows, BuzzFeed compiled a collection of "100 incredible airplane window views" from Flickr. (bandwidth-heavy single page version.) Click through slideshow at Business Insider.

Observing Earth

ocherdraco — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:26:12 -0800

We tend to think of blogs that showcase large images as a phenomenon of the past few years. But NASA's Earth Observatory has been posting its Image of the Day since April 1999 (when its first "large" image available for download was a 214 KB jpeg of the North Pole). Now, Image of the Day has downloads of images in multiple formats, most of which measure in megabytes, not kilobytes, and these stunning images of the earth's surface give context to the human activity down below: a toxic spill in Hungary, wildfires in Mexico, the growth of a coal mine in West Virginia, agriculture in Brazil, snowmelt flooding in Fargo, North Dakota, last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artificial islands in Dubai, the aftermath of Japan's recent tsunami.

Mother Nature is an abstract artist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:48:50 -0800

30 Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth "From 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art. The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist." Nice NASA images from 2000, downloadable as wallpaper.

I can see my house from here

jonson — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:55:51 -0800

Hi-res satellite photos of Earth Four pages worth, desktop wallpaper sized.

Google Earth threatens democracy

thecollegefear — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:16:36 -0800

Google Earth threatens democracy The planet's military bases apparently cannot hide from Google's all seeing eye.

300 miles up

crunchland — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:45:57 -0800

300 miles up.