Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Photographed from the International Space Station on September 17th 2012. (High Res)
(Source: eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
The first photographs of Planet Earth taken by the crew of ISS Expedition 33, on September 17th 2012.
(Source: eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
Celebrate Earth Day in Super High Resolution
Enormous cloudbanks roll along as day changes to night on our planet Earth in this incredibly high resolution time-lapse video.
The sequence was created by James Drake, a student at the University of Victoria in Canada, using data from the Russian Federal Space Agency’s Elektro-L 1 satellite. To see the entire image archive, visit Planet Earth.ca
(via wespeakfortheearth)
The spacecraft that took the images (the Elektro-L satellite) takes in light in 4 wavelengths, 3 visible, and one infra-red. The infra-red light is shifted into the visual range by making it orange. Infra-red light is reflected by plants, so the deeper the orange color the more vegetation is present.
