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Earth as art - Landsat images

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Annie Jack

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31-08-2012, 05:33 PM

Earth as art - Landsat images

For four decades, the Landsat program has been documenting Earth from space. Satellites gather light from both visible and invisible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to craft detailed images including human, biological, and geological details.

Below: The winner of the Earth as Art contest certainly deserves its #1 position. Around Gotland, Sweden's largest island, phytoplankton form green whorls in the dark sea. The tiny plants reached this visible level of growth after currents dragged nutrients from the water's depths to its surface.