The Earth: A Visual Story of Our Amazing Planet Featuring NASA Images

172 Pages·2018·108.67 MB·English

by  Beth Alesse

B
eth Alesse is a graphic artist, editor, and author. She holds degrees in art
and education and has a background in graphic arts, linguistics, and visual
and audio digital media. Her curated image collections have appeared in media
and books, some of which she has written.
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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
The Rock Mountains
The Ugab River
Cape Verde Islands
Florida Straits
Lake Eyre, Australia
Plankton Bloom
Many Kinds of Light
Flooded Land
Glacier Cracks
Run Island, Indonesia
Sahara Desert
Over 3,000 Glaciers
Ephemeral Lakes
The Aral Sea
Mississippi River Silt
An Astronaut’s View
False-Color Patterns
Atmosphere
Weather
Climate
The Great Lakes
Clouds
Sprites
Haze, Pollution, and Dust
Coldest Place on Earth
Hottest Place on Earth
Driest Place on Earth
Wettest Places on Earth
Water
NASA/NOAA Partnership
Swirls of Sea Ice
Danny
So Much Water
So Little Water
Earth’s Oceans
Rowley Shoals, Timor Sea
Arctic Ocean
Simulated Currents
Fresh Water
Yamzho Yumco Lake, Tibet
Lakes and Ponds
The Susitna Glacier
Alaskan Glacier
Rivers
Land
The Coast
Islands
Vulnerable Islands
Bermuda
Islands of the Bahamas
Gobi Desert
Sahara Desert
Rub’ al Khali
Mountains
Tallest Mountain
Craters
Life’s Footprint
Human Activity
Cities and Towns
Farms and Agriculture
Canals
Harbors and Ports
Roads and Highways
Ship Tracks
Mining
Dams and Hydro Works
Green Energy
Dynamic Earth
Reluctant Change
Pyroclastic Flow
Volcanic Eruptions
Storms
Visualizing the Storm
Flooding
Drought
Landslides
Earthquakes
Fires
Agricultural Fires
Scorched Earth
Terrorism
Tsunamis and Waves
Vulnerable Coasts
The Earth from Far Away
From the Moon
From the Mars
From the Saturn
Observing Our Changing Earth
Watch the Earth
Index