Happy Earth Day!

The USGS and NASA jointly maintain the “Earth as Art” website which brings to the public stunning images of the Earth taken by the Landsat-7 satellite and the Terra Satellite’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). The site was originally created in 2002 by the USGS National Center for EROS in order to publicize the Landsat program. The images on the web site were selected for aesthetic purposes rather than for the scientific value that they offerr.

Visitors can browse the images by continent or alphabetically to access high resolution JPEGs.

• Earth as Art

Image of the Shetland Islands