Satellite Images Show Artistic Side of Earth
WASHINGTON, DC, November 8, 2002 (ENS) – A new online exhibit of satellite imagery explores how natural landscapes create abstract art.
The website displays some of the astonishing patterns, vivid abstractions, and fantastic shapes now being exhibited in the collection of satellite imagery being displayed as “Landsat: Earth as Art.” The collection is currently on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but anyone can take a virtual tour through a web version of the exhibit at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/The exhibit is a joint project by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Satellite images from the collections of both agencies show 41 images of Earth taken by the Landsat 7 satellite from more than 400 miles above the Earth’s surface.
The only human intervention in creating these portraits of Earth was the color processing – the rest is nature in its most beautiful, intriguing and illuminating aspect. The images are also education, offering insights into the geological and atmospheric processes that create the startling beauty of the images.
At the website, visitors can download an Earth as Art screensaver, and order prints of some of the images from the USGS/EROS Data Center.
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Posted by: Paul on November 10, 2002 at 21:05:27