MetaFilter posts tagged with satellite and photos

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.

Kadath in the Cold Waste

Artw — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:13:02 -0800

Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica UK and US researchers peice together the most detailed map of Antarctica yet, searching through years of data to find cloud free images.

Cheezy music included free!

fungible — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:12:26 -0800

Deep Space and The Good Earth: pretty picture shows. (flash)

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.

Satellite photos of airplanes in flight

centerpunch — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:36:57 -0800

Satellite photos of airplanes in flight. This is a great time-waster, but for some reason I keep looking for more (you may need to adjust the zoom bar on the page to maximum). These are all at the Atlanta airport, and I was surprised how close they were to each other.... check out the one that left before, and the one before that, and the one before that... Those are all taking off, here's one that's landing. Can anybody find any more? Or does anyone care?

Devastation

PenDevil — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:45:01 -0800

Pre- and post- explosion satellite images of the Ryongchon train station in North Korea.

300 miles up

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

300 miles up.