A View from Above

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Lelsi

Nov 20, 2011 13:37

You'll never truly appreciate how beautiful earth is until you check out these pictures of images of earth as it is viewed from space. Earth at night : The first image is a composite picture taken at various times during the night that was then pasted together to create the appearance of Earth at night.The second image shows The Americas at night viewed from space,third is Europe, Africa and Middle East, 4th is Asia and Australia , and the last one is Antartica.

~ Greenland's coast just before the onset of winter :here's Greenlands eastern coast with inland snow slowly making its way to the coastal lands while the fjords are bordered by the icy waters from the sea.

~ Below is an image of Scandinavia in winter . One can clearly make out the many fjords, etched into the Norwegian coastline. Lake Vnern and Lake Vttern in Sweden do not completely freeze in winter, whereas Finlands many lakes are too small to be clearly seen from Space.

~ Another extreme climate zone is the Saharan desert. Its vastness seems graspable only from Space.

Lelsi

Nov 20, 2011 13:56

Islands are a popular photographic motif with astronauts who snap them again and again. Maybe it's because they are clearly marked, self-contained entities, similar to a spaceship. Here's a selection of a few islands : 1)At more than 2,000 miles from the closest populations on Tahiti and Chile, Easter Island is one of the most remote places on Earth, 2)Hawaii, 3) Bahrain, the island country in the Persian Gulf, 4)Ireland, 5)Cyprus, the Eurasian island state, with Turkey just above, 6)Like a key this is what the barren and mountainous Auckland Islands south of New Zealand look like.

Lelsi

Nov 20, 2011 14:04

peninsulas: 1) An oblique view of Florida with the Florida Keys (left) and the Bahama banks (right). Lake Okeechobee is clearly visible in the middle of the state, 2)A view of the triangular Sinai Peninsula and the Dead Sea Rift, on the centre, the Red Sea, 3) Manhattan is also a peninsula; here with a smoke plume on September 11, taken by Expedition 3 crew of the International Space Station.

Lelsi

Nov 20, 2011 14:12

Water bodies like rivers, bays and straits also make for good landmarks and scenic pictures: 1) The Ganges River Delta in India and Bangladesh is the worlds largest intertidal delta, 2)The San Francisco Bay Area as seen from Space. An impressive sight with the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio, Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz Island and Treasure Island clearly visible, 3)The Strait of Gibraltar as seen from Space, slightly rotated. The Strait separates Spain (here on the left) from Morocco (on the right), 4) The ocean glistening in the sun, photographed during mission STS-38 in Nov. 1990.