Today we have reached the final picture of Landsat week. I am starting to ask myself if someone at NASA is trying to follow in van Gogh’s footsteps. We have featured a video on ocean currents visualized in a van Gogh’esque fashion. This picture seems very much like the masterpiece ?The Starry Night?. This picture […]
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Fractal Art at the Yukon River Delta [Landsat Week]
Today's Landsat week post brings to you: art! I really don't know how to better describe this wonderful picture. But I will do my very best to try. While on first sight this could be many things, even biologically grown structures, this shows a river delta. To be exact it's the Yukon River Delta in […]
Erg Iguidi [Landsat Week]
Today’s Landsat post leads us to Algeria. The yellow streaks crossing this picture show us Erg Iguidi. This erg is part of the Sahara. If you direct your view on the fascinating background, you can distinguish between black sandstone in the middle and sand plains as seen on the lower left. Take a really close […]
Lake Eyre [Landsat Week]
Landsat Week! First of all, I have to admit that this picture kind of creeps me out. It just looks like a huge deranged face. It shows lake Eyre in northern South Australia. Although it is a lake, in its usual state Lake Eyre is a huge salt crust covering most of the lakes bed […]
It’s Landsat Week [Landsat Week]
This Monday marked the 40th birthday of a joint venture of NASA and the USGS: Landsat. documenting changes to the face of the Earth. Two of our admins independently got exited enough to do an article on this event (sorry for the redundancy). But since we got so excited about it and some people were […]
