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Earth As Art 1

The first Earth as Art collection, released in 2001, is made up of both land and cloud formations and even a giant geological formation. Landsat 7, which launched in 1999, was the artist for the original Earth As Art.

Wetlands represented by pink and green. It is heavily grooved with black.
Yellowknife Wetlands
Yellowknife Wetlands
A satellite image of the Anti-Atlas Mountains. The image consists of many defined edges and colors such as yellows and purples.
Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains
Wispy white clouds swirl over the darkness below.
Whirlpool in the Air
Whirlpool in the Air
The natural greens and grays of Sulaiman Mountains
Sulaiman Mountains
Sulaiman Mountains
A complex and colorful image of the Great Sandy Desert
Great Sandy Desert
Great Sandy Desert
Akpatok Island
Akpatok Island
Akpatok Island
Onion like rock structure surrounded by lush greens on the top side and white on the bottom side.
Richat Structure
Richat Structure
Many light colors and black lines showing a staging area for military exercises.
Iraqi Emplacement
Iraqi Emplacement
Part of the coastline of Guinea-Bissau. Reds represent the land and blues represent the water.
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
Light blue with wavy lines showing an icefall
Lambert Glacier
Lambert Glacier
A colorful image of Ghadamis River and surrounding area.
Ghadamis River
Ghadamis River
Black and white imagery of a section of the Mayn River.
Mayn River
Mayn River
Swirls of browns and whites with the occasional blue.
Dasht-e Kevir
Dasht-e Kevir
Dark outcroppings strung across the oranges and yellows of the Sahara Desert
Terkezi Oasis
Terkezi Oasis
Whites and blues showing a part of the coast of Greenland
Greenland Coast
Greenland Coast
Small red, white, and green circles with a few rectangles. Most of the red is grouped at the top.
Garden City, Kansas
Garden City, Kansas
A satellite image consisting of several small quadrilaterals ranging from blues to reds, with some white.
Bolivian Deforestation
Bolivian Deforestation
A portion of the MacDonnell Range shown in a series of colorful light blues and green. A few darker areas can be seen in the top right corner.
MacDonnell Ranges
MacDonnell Ranges
Green and gray textured terrain simply shows part of place named Namaqualand.
Namaqualand
Namaqualand
Light colored fan like shapes can be at the center of the image. Small, light lines are seen running horizontally across many parts of the image.
Great Sandy Scars
Great Sandy Scars
A bright blue color appears to be flowing from top to middle pushing ripples of red. This is surrounded by yellows and whites.
Malaspina Glacier
Malaspina Glacier
Several light colors such as yellow, pink, green, and blue streak up the picture. A river splits the picture in two. A barely noticeably red dot is along the river and just above the center.
The Optimist
The Optimist
Wrinkled golden yellow land
Namib Desert
Namib Desert
The Lena Delta appears as a tree like structure.
Lena Delta
Lena Delta
A Satellite image of clouds over the Aleutian Islands. The clouds appear in various blues and whites.
Aleutian Clouds
Aleutian Clouds
Karman vortices
Broutona
Broutona
Brown peninsulas branch from a stem. The centers are light blue.
West Fjords
West Fjords
False color image of Parana River Delta. Deep blue river ribbons bend dramatically through meat red and pale green land.
Parana River Delta
Parana River Delta
A predominately green satellite image of the Araca River and surrounding areas.
Araca River
Araca River
Light and dark greens. Purple rivers and streams can be seen running down into a bay that have a few different purples at the bottom.
Ganges River Delta
Ganges River Delta
Predominately green with some white, black and purple. A bright blue dot surrounded by purple on the right is presumably the peak of Kilimanjaro.
Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro
Several greens splattered across the image with some background reds and blues representing a portion of the Florida Everglades.
Florida Everglades
Florida Everglades
Mostly green and brown with dark blue in the lower left corner. There are large features resembling ovals.
Konari, Iran
Konari, Iran
Black and white image of Dragon Lake
Dragon Lake
Dragon Lake
A desolate portion of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range. Ridges and mountains are well defined from the view of the satellite.
Coahuila, Mexico
Coahuila, Mexico
Karman vortices starting at the bottom of the image going towards the top. The entire image is of white clouds.
Karman Vortices
Karman Vortices
The lush green land has many dark blue channels flowing into a bigger body of dark blues that take up the lower right half of the image. The top has some pick land.
Volga River Delta
Volga River Delta
A sharp and sudden contrast of vibrant colors at the top and duller colors at the bottom.
Edrengiyn Nuruu
Edrengiyn Nuruu
Dull greens and purples surround strokes of light to dark blues.
Lake Carnegie
Lake Carnegie
Chilean Volcanoes
Chilean Volcanoes
Chilean Volcanoes
The Demini River and surrounding areas represented be bright greens, pinks, and near to black colors.
Demini River
Demini River
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