Thursday, June 2, 2011

Earth As You've Never Seen It

Some of the most striking Earth images ever made... from Landsat. Since the space age began over five decades ago, we have endeavored to travel beyond Earth to discover its origins, and test our own mettle in hostile alien realms.

To see what other planets are made of, and to see to the far corners of the cosmos. Satellites in space have given us ring-side seats in the explosive death of stars, in the formation of stars and planets, in the collision of giant galaxies.

And yet some of the most striking views have come when we turned around and looked back at Earth. To see how breathtaking our planet can be

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