The Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites show intriguing views of the planet’s complex surface in the Earth as Art Three exhibit. Look for a monster, a tiger, a scary face, and something we call Van Gogh from Space.

Land is a combination of smeared blue and brown shades.
No Man's Land
No Man's Land
Smears of brown show center Algeria. Dark brown shows mountains in the lower right.
Algerian Sahara
Algerian Sahara
Smears and streaks of color. Primarily brown, white, and green.
Impact
Impact
Black and dark green split light green and pink smudges from top left to bottom right. The dark green spreads out over the bottom right.
Okavango Delta
Okavango Delta
Purples at the top of the image abruptly transitions into greens at the bottom. The top and center of the image is speckled with dark circles.
Desert to Forest
Desert to Forest
Colorful rough terrain with scattered black lakes.
Roof of the World
Roof of the World
Half circle of bright green and small touches of brown rises out of blue waters. The immediate coastline is light blue while the rest of the waters tend towards dark blue.
Island Rebound
Island Rebound
Bright green mesh next to dark blue.
Remote Tundra
Remote Tundra
Various greens with spots of purple make up the terrain. The lower right corner has speckles of yellow.
San Luis, Argentina
San Luis, Argentina
Mostly brown land with smudges of green and spots of red. The upper left contains dark blue water. Right below the dark blue are turquoise areas.
Sor Kaydak
Sor Kaydak
Blotches of white and tan surrounded by blue on an orange and brown landscape.
Lake Eyre
Lake Eyre
A popular holiday destination, the Lake District in northwestern England is a region of picturesque mountains and long, narrow lakes. Most of the lakes lie in U-shaped valleys that were carved by glaciers during the last ice age. Morecambe Bay, below the Lake District, opens into the Irish Sea. This large expanse of intertidal sand and mudflats is notorious for its quicksand and tides that are said to move "as fast as a horse can run."
Lake District
Lake District
Brown island in middle of dark blue waters with swirls of white and green.
Van Gogh from Space
Van Gogh from Space
Very colorful land with unusual shapes. A bright blue half circle is at the bottom of the image.
Siberian Ribbons
Siberian Ribbons
Red line flows through black and white mountainous terrain.
Rocky Mountain Trench
Rocky Mountain Trench
Teal snakes through small brown rectangles.
Meandering Mississippi
Meandering Mississippi
In the center of mottled reds and yellows is a dark red shape that is almost a circle.
Erongo Massif
Erongo Massif
Surrounded by dark gray is a blob of blue with touches of green. Red blotches line the top of the blue blob.
Caribbean Luxury
Caribbean Luxury
Just above splatters of red are ethereal swirls of turquoise against midnight blue waters.
Ghostly Grease Ice
Ghostly Grease Ice
These sand dunes appear as sunset colored ribbons that stripe over Algeria
Desert Patterns
Desert Patterns
Colorful Mountain Terrain
Barreal Blanco
Barreal Blanco
Chaotic montage of colors
Spilled Paint
Spilled Paint
Lines run across the landscape only partially cut by a mountain. Part of the lines form a big stroke of red down the center of the image.
Empty Quarter
Empty Quarter
Sinuous pink, green, and blue terrain and waterways.
Yukon Delta
Yukon Delta
White and light blue swirls on top of dark blue.
Ice Stars
Ice Stars
Thin strips of pink and green make an island
Belcher Islands
Belcher Islands
Crimson flowing through rugged terrain from an orange, circular shape.
Anyuyskiy Volcano
Anyuyskiy Volcano
White mountainous land with tinges of red. The white has the appearance of new swirls forming in the dark red at the left of the image.
Ice Waves
Ice Waves
Green and deep purple mountains with rivers.
Waziristan Hills
Waziristan Hills
Green and orange hue of rugged mountain terrain contains dashes of yellow.
Rugged Terrain
Rugged Terrain
Orange land next to dark blue waters. The land in the lower left looks stringy.
The Dardzha Monster
The Dardzha Monster
Lines and shapes of purple tint cover the white landscape
Robinson Glacier
Robinson Glacier
Semi-transparent white streaks across blue land with bright green mountains and blue waters.
Meighen Island
Meighen Island
Pink land with flashing bolts of white. Small section of lush green is separated be a mountainous ridge.
The Dhofar Difference
The Dhofar Difference
White lines tinged with blue sweep between two white mountains in this white colored terrain. Some areas of the mountain stand out because they are bright red.
Byrd Glacier
Byrd Glacier
Orange, black, and white stripes form branching mountains next to black waters.
Icelandic Tiger
Icelandic Tiger
Alien green blobs form a bone like structure in dark blue-gray waters.
Great Barrier Reef
Great Barrier Reef
Yellow sand ridges streaking through smears of color.
Algerian Abstract
Algerian Abstract
Shimmering blue and green mountains in a pink and brown land.
Sierra de Velasco
Sierra de Velasco
White clouds encircle Mount Elgon on a mostly green terrain.
Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon