Earth

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Friedl, Lawrence. Earth as art / Lawrence Friedl, Karen Yuen...[et.al.]. p. cm. Summary: “[Images from Earth-observing environmental satellites in orbit around the planet. This book shows patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere]”--Provided by publisher. 1. Earth--Pictorial works. I. Yuen, Karen. II. Title. QB637.F75 2012 550.22’2--dc23 2012031026

I S B N 978-0-16-091365-5

90000

For sale by the Superintendent of Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: to Fax: [phone] Mail: S

ISBN 9

9

780160 913655

EARTH AS ART

I S B N 978-0-16-091365-5

90000

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free [phone]; DC area [phone] Fax: [phone] Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402-0001
I S B N 978-0-16-091365-5

ii

9

780160 913655

We must look to the heavens . . . for the measure of the earth.
Jean-Félix Picard

iv

EARTH AS ART

Contents viii 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 Foreword Akpatok Island, Canada Aleutian Clouds, Bering Sea Algerian Desert, Algeria Alluvial Fan, China Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco Anyuyskiy Volcano, Russia Belcher Islands, Canada Bogda Mountains, China Bombetoka Bay, Madagascar Brandberg Massif, Namibia Byrd Glacier, Antarctica Cape Farewell, New Zealand Carbonate Sand Dunes, Atlantic Ocean Carnegie Lake, Australia Dardzha Peninsula, Turkmenistan Dasht-e Kavir, Iran Desolation Canyon, United States East African Rift, Kenya Edrengiyn Nuruu, Mongolia Erg Chech, Algeria Erg Iguidi, Algeria and Mauritania Erongo Massif, Namibia

EARTH AS ART

40 42 44

vi

46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 100 102 104 106 108 110 112

Garden City, United States Grand Bahama Bank, Atlantic Ocean Gravity Waves, Above the Indian Ocean Great Salt Desert, Iran