Sometimes a Landsat image is mistaken for an oil painting. The Sundarbans delta resembles a green hand. The Namib Desert is a brushstroke of orange. NASA and the USGS curate these for a series called Earth as Art. A small selection is below. Every image is real, recorded by Landsat from 438 miles up.
Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, the largest river delta on Earth, MODIS, 2000Namib Sand Sea, Namibia. Some of the tallest dunes in the world, Landsat 8, 2019Phytoplankton bloom, Baltic Sea, Landsat 8, August 2020Lena River delta, Siberia. The delta fans out across 32,000 sq km of Arctic tundra, LandsatByrd Glacier flowing into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Landsat 7, 1999Pivot-irrigation circles, Wadi As-Sirhan basin, Saudi Arabia, Landsat 5Braided rivers across Iceland's lava plains, Landsat 8, 2019A dust storm sweeping across Queensland, Australia, Landsat 8, January 2020Yukon River delta, Alaska, Landsat 7, 2002Bogda Mountains and Turpan Depression, western China. The depression floor sits below sea level, LandsatSalar de Atacama salt flats, Chile, Landsat 7, 2002Zambezi River delta, Mozambique. The river splays into dozens of channels before reaching the Indian Ocean, Landsat 8, 2013
Imagery: NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, Landsat programme, public domain. Skylit Studio is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA or USGS.
The Print
Your name, from orbit
Every patch of Earth is in the Landsat archive. So are the patches that look like the letters of your name. Skylit Studio uses the same public-domain imagery to spell any name, framed and printed in the UK.
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