domenica 25 agosto 2013

Photographs of Earth from the ESA Archive

A phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands.  

The landscape of the Tanezrouft Basin, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, in south-central Algeria.  

The southern Atacama Desert, with the border of Chile (west) and Argentina (east) running down the middle. 

Beijing

Clearwater Lakes, located to the east of the Hudson Bay

The northern part of the country of Namibia

Lake Powell

 Mississippi River delta: land vegetation appears pink, while the sediment in the surrounding waters are bright blue and green 
The sand seas of the Namib Desert

The ParanΓ‘ River cuts through this image of southern Brazil

The northern end of the Persian Gulf, along with the border of Iran and Iraq and the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab river
Sand and dust blowing northeast from the Arabian Peninsula across the Persian Gulf toward Iran

The foothills of the Andes mountains near the southern coast of Peru

The icy waters of the Baltic Sea surrounding Germany’s largest island, RΓΌgen

Sand and dust from the Sahara Desert blowing across the Atlantic Ocean along the coasts of Mauritania (top), Senegal (middle) and Guinea Bissau (bottom) 

North central Siberia

Three of the five Great Lakes of North America. Lakes Huron (left) and Erie (bottom) are partially ice-covered 

Rolling hills of farmland in part of the Palouse Region in the northwest United States

Running across the image, the Okavango River forms the border between Namibia to the south and Angola 

The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya

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