Earth As Art 1
Science Center Objects
The first Earth as Art collection, released in 2001, is made up of both land and cloud formations and even a giant geological formation. Landsat 7, which launched in 1999, was the artist for the original Earth As Art.
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MacDonnell Ranges
The MacDonnell Ranges are a band of mountains spanning Australia's arid interior. Only a portion of the Ranges can be seen in this image.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 1.8 miles (2.8km)
- Download: JPG
Yellowknife Wetlands
Extensive wetlands lie near the town of Yellowknife, near the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories, Canada. The shallow lakes seen in this image have formed in grooves in the landscape that were carved by glaciers during the last Ice Age.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 2.8 miles (4.5km)
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Atlas Mountains
These are the Anti-Atlas Mountains, part of the Atlas Mountain range in southern Morocco, Africa. The region contains some of the world's largest and most diverse mineral resources, most of which are still untouched.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 3.7 miles (6.0km)
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Whirlpool in the Air
This image shows a spinning formation of ice, clouds, and low-lying fog off the eastern coast of Greenland.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 1.7 miles (2.8km)
- Download: JPG
Sulaiman Mountains
The Sulaiman Mountains are a major geological feature of Pakistan and one of the bordering ranges of the Indian subcontinent.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 2.8 miles (4.5km)
- Download: JPG
Great Sandy Desert
The western region of Australia's Great Sandy Desert is an area almost devoid of sand, but characterized by complex geology.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 8
- Scale: 2.8 miles (4.5km)
- Download: JPG
Iraqi Emplacement
In an area north of the city of Al-Basrah, Iraq, which borders Iran, a former wetland has been drained and walled off. Now littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it is a staging area for military exercises.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 1.4 miles (2.2km)
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Akpatok Island
Akpatok Island lies in Ungava Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Accessible only by air, Akpatok Island rises out of the water as sheer cliffs that soar 500 to 800 feet (150 to 243m) above the sea surface. The island is an important sanctuary for cliff-nesting seabirds. Numerous ice floes around the island attract walrus and whales, making Akpatok a traditional hunting ground
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Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa. Complex patterns can be seen in the shallow waters along its coastline, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 3.0 miles (4.9km)
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Lambert Glacier
The Lambert Glacier in Antarctica is the world's largest glacier. The focal point of this image is an icefall that feeds into the glacier from the vast ice sheet covering the polar plateau. Ice flows like water, albeit much more slowly. Cracks can be seen in this icefall as it bends and twists on its slow-motion descent 1300 feet (400 meters) to the glacier below.
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Ghadamis River
This scar on an arid landscape is the dry riverbed of the Ghadamis River in the Tinrhert Hamada Mountains near Ghadamis, Libya.
- Collection: Earth as Art
- Source: Landsat 7
- Scale: 1.6 miles (2.6km)
- Download: JPG