If you really want to know where you are, you need to pull back—way back.
Rounded up most amazing satellite images of the Earth created this year,
ranging from a glimpse of the desert cauldron of creativity that is
Burning Man to a massive copper mine in the South
American country of
Chile.
These images show the surface of our planet as we’ve shaped it,
either through developments like the sprawling Olympic Village in London
to the simple fall colors of a second-growth forest in Pennsylvania.
They serve as a reminder of the wealth we enjoy—see the yachts floating
lazily off Monte Carlo—to the destruction we endure in places like Homs,
Syria, which shows up wreathed in the tar-black smoke of a pipeline
explosion. It’s an amazing world.
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| Easter mass in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City, April 8, 2012. |
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| The Olympic Village in London, July 23, 2012. |
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| The Skytree, the tallest self supported building in Asia, located in Tokyo, April 4, 2012. |
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| Mt. Fuji, the highest peak in Japan, Sept. 20, 2012. |
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| The Puntiagudo-Cordón Cenizos volcanic chain in the Andes mountains of Chile, Oct. 14, 2012. |
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| A mine sculpture known as "The Lady of the North" in north England, Sept. 6, 2012. |
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| A pipeline fire that occured in Homs, Syria, Feb. 15, 2012. |
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Burning Man festival in Nevada, Aug. 28, 2012.
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The Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile, Oct. 14, 2012.
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The annual yacht show in Monte Carlo, Monaco, Sept. 22, 2012.
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Fall colors in Reading, Pa., Oct., 5, 2012.
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#picture credit:
DigitalGlobe
# pictures thankfully shared from:
science.time.com
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