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Satellite Images picked for artistic content

July 22nd 2008 01:58
Bahamas Landsat Satellite image
Is this a painting? A digitally rendered photograph? Is it worth a lot of money? Should I buy it?

Should I?

No, there's no need. This image is a satellite picture taken by the Landsat satellite, part of a dense collection of satellite images stored on gigantic servers somewhere in the dark places of the Earth.

Someone noticed that the images had the potential to be beautiful, like gigantic abstract paintings, rendering the Earth as the weirdest artist of them all. Give it a grant and a studio and let it get down to business.


30 of the best satellite images!


This image is actually of ocean sand dunes, coated in seaweed and carved by currents. From the original post:

"From afar, this could look like an abstract painting, however this spectacular satellite image is of the dunes of sand and seaweed, sculpted by the ocean currents. The fluted, underwater dunes are formed in much the same way as sand dunes in deserts."

These images are incredible, fermenting a desire to go see these strange places on the Earth. What would they look like up close, though? Would you really like to see the Bolivian deforestation?

Australians will be proud to see their own country represented on the list several times, including this ethereally haunting image of the Great Sandy desert:

Australia Great Sandy Scars satellite image


(found on Fazed)

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Comment by Aimzster

July 22nd 2008 03:53
Wow, Lake Carnegie looks goregous!

Comment by TimmyH

July 22nd 2008 11:50
THAT is fucking cool!

Comment by Cibbuano

July 22nd 2008 22:29
the images look even crazier since they're Landsat images, I think, which use a fixed colour set.

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