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The icy waters of the Baltic Sea surrounding Germany’s largest island, Rügen, are pictured in this image from ALOS satellite.
A phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands
The extraordinary landscape of the Tanezrouft Basin, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, in south-central Algeria
Beijing, photographed by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli during the celebrations of the Chinese New Year
The sand seas of the Namib Desert
The foothills of the Andes mountains near the southern coast of Peru
Rolling hills of farmland in the northwest United States
The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya
Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Australian outback
Images from the ESA library
Comments
i'm glad of the text descriptions for most of these, i'd have zero idea otherwise. man, these are great - makes me want to launch my own satellite hehe
Kazakh, Mongolia
Samburu, Kenya
Huli, Papua New Guinea
Mursi, Ethiopia
Ladakhi, India
Asaro, Papua New Guinea
Nenets, Russia
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