MetaFilter posts tagged with images and satellite

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.

Radar images of earth

Glow Bucket — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:08:22 -0800

High resolution images of Earth. The German satellite TerraSAR-X was shot into space on June 15, and already four days after sent some beautiful pictures back to Earth. Pictures are described in German, but you'll figure it out.

The Objective Orbiting Eye in the Sky

trinarian — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:59:30 -0800

Live, From Outer Space: rural fires [1, 2], The Haze in China [1 ,2, 3] and its movement, aerosols, and the brothers carbon monoxide [a photochemical smog agent] and carbon dioxide.

Oprah From Space

Saucy Intruder — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:46:36 -0800

Oprahhhhh Froooooom Sppaaaaaaaaacccceee... and other interesting landmarks via The World According to Google.

Lucy in Ethiopia with Images

fluffycreature — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:42:37 -0800

Lucy and Ethiopia From a favorite mailing list, I receive my dose of satellite images. One of the images this week is from Ethiopia. Reading the text they provide, you’ll see this is the area where ‘Australopithecus afarensis’ hails from; she is know as Lucy to most of us. Why Lucy? Because Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing on the radio when they found her. The site also lead me to this guy, who has the title Paleo-Artist and has rather interesting artwork on his site.

This Is Not Sim City

armoured-ant — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:55:43 -0800

Middle East Enders (3.94mb JPEG), courtesy of SpaceImaging.com's gallery. Other wowsers include Singapore, Venice and the pyramids.

Big Blue Marble

crunchland — Sat, 19 Jul 2003 09:20:45 -0800

The Blue Marble ... true color global imagery at 1km resolution.