Our beautiful planet seen by the eyes of satellites.
South of the Iberia Peninsula. Sand Storm leaves Africa and Canary Islands
Strait of Gibraltar
Night arrives over Europe and Northern Africa
The Swiss Alps
Iceland
The Black Sea
The Red Sea
Even submerged in darkness it is a beautiful sight!
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that was apsolutily loverly my teacher showed me at school coupple weeks ago i loved it with the music but cnt seem to find the one with the music again i passed it on to alot of ppl and they love it id love to see more of the world from above
the night and day transition is obviously not fake... ive seen this photo in National Geographic and other relyable sources. Best keep those comments to yourself unless you have facts
The picture with the caption "Night arrives over Europe and Northern Africa" is obviously a fake but I see it all the time on the web. You can't see features on the bottom of the ocean from space or from a boat. It can't be done. Quit pretending like it is a real photo.
It is great view that getting from far away of us, and see many of the view that is very attractive and excellent shot as well. Of course, there are more for who interseting in such photo from space coverage.
beautiful pictures
and about iceland and greenland
their switched for a reason, the vikings wanted to confuse their enemies by switching the names, making a green country named iceland and a ice country named greenland
hope u get what im saying
No South America? We barely see it in the last pic, but there are no shots that focus on it. Other than that, beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing.
Yep, that image is definitely of Iceland. I know when I was in school I had a teacher who stressed to us the irony of Iceland being "green" and Greenland being covered with ice...I have since learned to disregard what teachers say unless I can verify the information through a second (or third) source.
no it´s Iceland
Your "Iceland" is in fact Greenland.
But otherwise, these are beautiful!
beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Very nice pictures, Vladimir. Thank you for putting them up here. They show how beautiful our "blue planet" really is but also how fragile...
Have a great year 2009!
keep up good work
Awesome photos!
many thanks,
smiles, cyndi
Really awesome pics!
I love the ones of the night where you can see all the lights.. So amazing.
Wow - amazing images! I suddenly feel very small. Thank you for putting this together, Vladimir!
Gorgeous! It reminds me of being on the Star Ship Enterprise!
Nice pics.
Well a comment on the Iceland Greenland thing.
The reason for the names are that vikings went out on a raid. they found Iceland (at wintertime) and hence they called it Iceland. Greenland was discovered the year after in the summer and they struck land far south. there was green so therefore Greenland. Just like the reason for Indians in America.
who was the person that called earth the blue planet?
We are proud to live on such beautiful planet! Lets do our little effort so that it remain beautiful for ever.
yeah Greenland is icy and Iceland is "green" but since there pretty well up there they both are pretty icy year round
I was under the impression Greenland was the icy one, and Iceland was the green one, due to Viking tricks. Am I wrong?
So, to those of you who are bitching about America using so much light and shit... check out Japan. I'm pretty sure the comparison of light to size proves Japan's light usage exceeds ours.
Also, get over it. Posting on a forum isn't going to make the earth any greener or these pictures any more real or fake (whichever side you're on). If any of you fuck faces gave a shit, you'd be over in Africa hooking up their power. But I suppose your "over lit" America with Laz-e Boy chairs and laptop Macs is too comfortable to risk.
Keep right on posting, but remember: you guys are doing nothing but making some other person on another computer a little flustered.
They are not fake
Neither are they photographs.
These are images generated from equipment designed to identify and capture static lights around the globe for 'research' purposes. There are very few man made things which can be observed from space with the naked eye.
So they DO represent the extent of lights around our planet but nobody has ever seen this.
However, to say they are fake is not realistic - if this were so then almost all astronomical photos would also be fake as they rely on long exposures and the capture of electromagnetic radiation from all parts of the non-visible spectrum.
It is however sad that these images are in wide circulation without any credits or explanation and hence misleading many people.
That was my girlfriend lol
Amazing collection...
This is something new and different of all of photography what I saw.
Respect !
Bex