Sunday, January 25, 2009

a little something to remind me that there are bigger things in the world...

Life is not an emergency!

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Sandstorm, NASA/Jesse Allen, Robert Simmon/MODIS science team

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Phytoplankton in the Black Sea, NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team

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Forest in Congo (Orange lines are logging roads), NASA /Jesse Allen, IKONOS, Nadine Laporte, Woods Hole Research Center

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Re-emerging island in Canada, NASA/Jesse Allen, Landsat,University of Maryland's Global Land Cover Facility

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Tibet, NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center

And lastly,

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Las Vegas (I'm really proud I recognized this one before I saw the caption! We landed in Las Vegas on the CA trip last year...), IKONOS image ©2004 GeoEye

See the full post here...it's absolutely gorgeous!!

1 comment:

Chris said...

cool pics! you forgot to mention ukraine being in one of them though :P