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The Earth : A Visual Story of Our Amazing Planet Featuring NASA Images.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alesse, Beth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space photography.
- Satellite image maps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Buffalo, NY : Amherst Media, Incorporated, 2018.
- Summary:
- Earth From Space: A Visual Tour is a book with a collection of over 180 gorgeous images compiled from instrument data of NASA and their world-class collaborators. Some of these instruments are sensitive to the visual range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Other instruments record other wavelengths such as ultraviolet and infrared. Colors are assigned to portions of data to make imagesthat portray our Earth with visual imagery. Details of the Earth from above show forest fires, floods, hurricanes, parks, cloud formations, the great cities of the world, sleepy backwaters, reefs, oceans, glaciers, snow capped mountains, archaeological sites, and transportation highways.Our understanding is transformed as we can truly see events like algae blooms, carbon emissions, crop health, volcanic eruptions, and more. The images in this book are beautiful and genuinely artful. Images of Earth from space are shaping our current ideas, beliefs, and perspectives and pointing the way to our future.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Copyright
- Contents
- Earth Images from Space
- Early Film Space Images
- First American to Walk in Space
- Gemini 7, 1965
- Apolla 12, 1969
- Skylab 4, 1974
- Space Shuttle Discovery, 1994
- Seeing Earth
- Cameras in Space
- Satellites and Instruments
- Satellites and Data
- Rapid Response System
- Thermal Images
- A Lava Field
- Images Communicate
- Beautiful Earth
- Lowest Country
- Cancun
- A Dry Basin
- Ancient Dunes
- Checkerboard Forest
- Operation IceBridge
- Clouds over Puru
- Glacial Drumlins Become Islands
- First Norse Settlement of Greenland Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-68203-317-1
- OCLC:
- 1042079318
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