Earth as art
When the Landsat 7 satellite first spun around the globe in 1999, NASA called it the most finely tuned Earth-observing instrument ever to hit orbit. It snapped thousands of images that first year. And while accurately mapping the continents, Landsat 7 also beamed back beautiful glimpses of seemingly alien worlds.
鈥淔rom 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art,鈥� writes . 鈥淭he global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist. Mother Nature is an abstract artist.鈥�
NASA combed through 400,000 images for a Library of Congress exhibition in 2000. And this month, EnvironmentalGraffiti culled from the finalists the 鈥�30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth.鈥�
I plucked three of their choices and posted them above, but you really need to click through their list. Their gallery even includes high-resolution downloads of each image, so you can make them your computer wallpaper.
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