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Tag: earth science
October 7, 2013
European Space Agency can serve your imagery fix whilst NASA is down. #planetearthispretty
Colossal (and Devid Sketchbook) provides this awesome option.
Luckily there’s still at least one space agency still publishing photos of space (and space from Earth), the European Space Agency. The ESA has an incredible Observing the Earth archive that’s updated every week and each satelitte image is usually accompanied by a brief essay to explain a bit about what you’re looking at.
Now for the whoa part:
Via Colossal (and Devid Sketchbook)
July 25, 2012
Why the Moon Hates the Beach
By Mark Heath at Nobrow Cartoons.
March 27, 2012
Ocean currents visualized: strangely reminiscent of Van Gogh
This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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