Filled with spectacular imagery, this book “stands at an intersection of science and art.” From a satellite view, NASA gives us a glimpse of Earth’s beauty through images that tell a story of land, wind, water, ice, and air from above. Major topics covered:
- Atmosphere
- Water
- Land
- Ice and Snow
Contents
vi Foreword
2 Atmosphere
4 Curving Cloud Streets, Brazil and Bolivia
6 A Trio of Plumes, South Atlantic Ocean
8 Filling the Valleys, Peru
10 A Glorious View, Pacific Ocean
12 Punching Holes in the Sky, United States
14 Bering Streets, Arctic Ocean
16 Riding the Waves, Mauritania
18 Cloud Shadow, Germany
20 Double Trouble, Pacific Ocean
24 Making Tracks, Pacific Ocean
26 Tracing the Coast, China
28 Four Mountains Stand Out, Pacific Ocean
32 Framing an Iceberg, South Atlantic Ocean
34 Valley Fog, Canada
36 Holuhraun Lava Field, Iceland
40 Water
42 Channel Country, Australia
44 Tea-Colored Rupert Bay, Canada
48 Coral Cocos, Indian Ocean
50 Bay of Whales, Russia
52 Storms Stir Up Sediment, Bermuda
54 The Meeting of the Waters, Brazil
56 A Lava Lamp Look at the Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean
58 Teeming Life in the Strait of Georgia, Canada
60 Ephemeral Lake Frome, Australia
62 Dueling Blooms, Barents Sea
64 A Bay Sculpted by Ice, Canada
66 Tidal Flats and Channels, Bahamas
68 The Blooming Baltic, Baltic Sea
70 Waves Beneath the Waves, Trinidad
72 Land of Lakes, Canada
74 Plankton and Sulfur, Namibia
76 Åland Islands, Scandinavia
78 Crater Lakes with Clear Water, Canada
80 Mergui Archipelago, Southeast Asia
82 Scarlet Lake Natron, Tanzania
84 Swirling Bloom off Patagonia, Argentina
86 Land
88 A Curious Ensemble of Wonderful Features, United States
92 Megadunes and Desert Lakes, Mongolia
94 Colorful Faults of Xinjiang, China
96 Bowknot Bend, United States
98 From Rainforest to Rain Shadow, United States
100 A Blaze of Color, Sweden
102 Folds and Curves of the Kavir, Iran
104 Fanning Out in Farmland, Kazakhstan
108 The Zones of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
110 Liwa Oasis, United Arab Emirates
112 Don Juan Pond, Antarctica
114 Linear Dunes, Caprivi Strip, Namibia
116 Harratt Lunayyir Lava Field, Saudi Arabia
118 Taranaki and Egmont, New Zealand
120 Cultivating a Border, China and Kazakhstan
122 Barrier Islands, Brazil
124 Tsauchab River Bed, Namibia
126 Ice and Snow
128 Mertz Loses Part of Its Tongue, Antarctica
130 Swimming with Ice Cubes, United States
132 Franz Josef Land, Arctic Ocean
134 No Green in This Land, Greenland
136 Mackenzie Meets Beaufort, Canada
138 Sea Ice at Shikotan, Japan and Russia
140 North Patagonian Icefield, South America
144 Manning Island and Foxe Basin, Canada
146 Ice Water, United States
148 Omulyakhskaya and Khromskaya, Russia
150 Phytoplankton on Ice, Antarctica
152 Heart-Shaped Uummannaq, Greenland
154 Puma Yumco, China
156 Grounded in the Caspian, Kazakhstan
158 Ice-Covered Delta, Canada
160 Appendix
164 Acknowledgments
166 Credits
168 About the Authors
38 Lofted Over Land, Madagascar
Individuals interested in astronomy, earth science or space exploration.
Product Details
- Carlowicz, Michael
- NP 2018 05 2546-HQ
- Earth
- Remote Sensing
- Earth Exploration From Space
- Space Photography
