Ganges Delta
Time Magazine has launched in partnership with Google a Timelapse site to show the impact, in as clear terms as possible, we have had on our planet.
As part of the project there is this gorgeous collection of vibrant landscapes caught from space.
Guinea Bissau
Yukon Delta
Mayn River (Russia)
Kansas
Syrian Desert
Lena Delta (Russia)
Malaspina Glacier (Alaska)
Florida Everglades
Niger River
Dhofar (Oman)
Baltic Sea
Citylights: Photos by Karin Apollonia
Citylights increases the focal distance of my previous work, documenting in found images human habitation on a global scale using the reflected light of population as seen from Earth's orbit, a graph-like portrait of human activity—desire—and its geographic distribution across the surface of our planet. Inversion of this image questions the arbitrary nature of man's sense of his own orientation in the physical realm on earth and in space, also suggesting fireflies seeking a mate against the blackness of night.
A look back at the best views of our planet from space in the last year, including true color satellite images, Earth science data visualizations, time lapses from the International Space Station, and computer models.
Like a "Now That's What I Call Music" but for Satellite imagery of the Earth, brought to you by NASA.
NASA Best Satellite 2012 first appeared on 5thingsilearnedtoday.com