Earthviews
Earthviews from Landsat Mission Satellites
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Earth Sharing Observation Resources / NASA
- Satellite Missions Database
(Introduced in 2015 at GreenPolicy360)
Earth Observations Portal
Update:
September 2026
GreenPolicy360: Now that we/humanity, with open source data compiled in databases from 50+ years of satellite Earth Imaging (beginning w/ decades of US-initiated 'planet earth', first-generation Earth Science/NASA missions), it's time to 'work the data'
Introducing 'Worldviews'
First, for digital screens, schools, education and knowledge across the world, look at NASA's updated 'Worldview' and 'World Monitor' projects
Add in NASA's Earthdata publicly available Earth Science Data System (ESDS) and Earth Observing System (EOS)
The NASA Earth Observing System (EOS)
The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans. Since the early 1970s, NASA has been developing its Earth Observing System, launching a series of Landsat satellites ... Following the launch of various satellite missions, the conception of the program began in the late 1980s and expanded rapidly through the 1990s.[2] Since the inception of the program, it has continued to develop, including; land, sea, radiation and atmosphere.[1] Collected in a system known as EOSDIS, NASA uses this data in order to study the progression and changes in the biosphere of Earth. The main focus of this data collection surrounds climatic science. The program is the centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.
SJS: With their/our real-time capabilities, we are now talking navigating and knowing our world like never before ...
April 2025
The following 9 GreenPolicy360 pages use this file:
- Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
- Earth Observation System Data and Information System - NASA EOS
- Earth Science Research from Space
- George E. Brown Jr
- Planet Earth Perspective
- Stats - Green Research & Science
- File:EOS - Earth Science Data Operations.png
- File:Science Guides.jpeg
- Category:NASA
SJS / GreenPolicy360 founder/siterunner: From envisioning to reality, first principles to development, proof-of-concept to prototypes, engineering models, testing, launching, managing, monitoring, gathering, sharing ... distribution and use ... sometimes it's good to be older and to see the story arc roll out ... a tip of our Green cap to the visionaries, the dreamers and doers, those who made it all happen --
SJS / GreenPolicy360: Journeying across 50+ years of the modern environmental movement
From Earthrise to becoming a 'participant-observer' over the first three decades of a new Earth Science movement
The Modern Environmental Movement
Thank you for the ride, Rep. George E. Brown, your three decades of vision, effort, oversight and managing of US Earth Science / Atmospheric Science, a foundation for humanity to build on, continues to be shared globally, open-source, as you/we hoped, even though there are forces in opposition
Onward we go!
Earth Observation System Data and Information System - NASA EOS
NASA's Earth Observation System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) comprises elements including Distributed Active Archive Centers, Science Investigator-led Processing Systems, and web infrastructure.
NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is a key core capability in the Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. It provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA Earth science data from various sources — satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and various other programs.
For the EOS satellite missions, EOSDIS provides capabilities for command and control, scheduling, data capture and initial processing. These capabilities, constituting the EOSDIS Mission Operations, are managed by NASA's Earth Science Mission Operations (ESMO) Project. NASA network capabilities transport the data to the science operations facilities.
Update: See the Web Unification Project --
The Earth Observation System (EOS) is continuing to be updated with Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS)
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Visit GreenPolicy360's story of Earth Science research from our decades of research, eco-activism and #PlanetCitizens education.
Our GreenPolicy360 eco Operating System (eOS) includes:
Look at how thin our atmosphere is
New Definitions of National Security -
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A Whole Earth Vision
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- Video by Astronaut Anil Menon, July 2026
- View out the International Space Stations Cupola windows
- Watch a minute-long Astro-Earthview Video here
- * https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2081161768517153167
And come along with us as we recall our long-time friend, Representative George Brown, who in his Congressional oversight role shepherded the Landsat program in its first three decades, and follow along with the genesis and ongoing, over five decades-long Landsat Earth Imaging Mission...
In 2016 the Landsat mission and its pioneering Earth Science from Space arriving at its 50th anniversary...
Steven Schmidt / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
Landsat was, and still is, an amazing 'open-access' historic accomplishment brought forward (and saved) by an East LA congressman who was a friend and a colleague for over 30 yrs... Thxs to the vision of two environmental visionaries, Stewart Udall and George Brown and the efforts of our many colleagues at NASA, NOAA, USGS, and the young student and teams at Caltech, MIT and the great American universities, men and women of all colors and talents, with shared values of achievement, persistence and overcoming challenges -- (see the story of Virginia Norwood!) -- we/humanity have, with the unique Landsat mission, a green success unrivaled in science and vision.
GreenPolicy360 siterunner is remembering and recalling how George followed on with Stewart Udall to imagine the EROS/Landsat mission and how the collaborative coast-to-coast grants/group/projects/programs/missions worked, year in, year out... The vision of the 60s and 70s carried forward with funding and support for Landsat and multiple Earth science achievements. Many of the satellite studies, imaging, and database archived results are now, years later, providing uniquely valuable records for use around the world. We look at Google Maps, and understand how key nextgen home planet imagery of the Landsat constellation is, benefiting all. -- What's Next? "Landsat 9"
Although George E. Brown is not known by many, he is vivid in our recollections of him beginning in the mid- and late 1960s -- George was saying we're going to build the Earth imaging program and we're going to launch not just an earth observation satellite, but a constellation and ongoing earth science and protection mission. George did what he promised to do and the Landsat program was born.
George E Brown led Earth Science from Space with his position on the oversight committees, in his drafted legislation, conducted hearings, coordinated research from science academic and research organization, and shaping Congressional support and votes for over 25 yrs.
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Here's to George's dream with Landsat, still flying, still mapping, still bringing us the science, facts, data, tracking the change in Earth's life systems, landscape to landscape, region by region, nation to nation, across our home planet ... We're all in this ride together on our dynamic-changing Planet Earth ...
Celebrating Earth's Beauty via Landsat
Read about George E. Brown & Landsat at GreenPolicy360:
Here's more about Landsat as described at GreenPolicy360:
Steven Schmidt: One of the most consequential science missions in US history successfully launched a 9th generation Landsat Earth Imaging satellite. I am fortunate to be one of a few who watched earth science 'big science' missions of NASA come into existence with the efforts of Congressman George E. Brown, who was instrumental in creating, shepherding, and protecting earth- and atmospheric-science programs as they began. The US Representative from Los Angeles knew, and I heard his reasoning, that we needed good data, facts, science to guide our, i.e, the nation's policy decisions. George, on the main oversight committees, took on an activist role. NASA and a range of educational/university programs stepped up and created the first-generation beginning that we now have as data banks/baselines/earth system changes that are being measured and monitored in ways to guide political policy makers on climate, resources, protecting our life enabling 'thin blue layer' (www.thinbluelayer.com). Rep. George E. Brown (from East LA) went on offense to move the programs/missions forward and then defense to keep politicians such as Ronald Reagan who moved to zero out and kill the Landsat program. Although I've often said that not many know or care about visionaries like George Brown, I have also often said visionaries-activists were essential in the 70s/80s/90s in giving our generation the tools and a knowledge base to deal with generational and intergenerational environmental challenges and crisis.
Here's a tip of our #GreenPolicy360 hat to Landsat and those who made and are continuing to make big science, earth science real to guide us as we go...
The Landsat Mission: Now Going On 50+ Years
- Providing a Unique and Unequaled Record of Earth's Dynamic, Evolving Life Systems
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#PlanetCitizens in Action, Putting Landsat Imaging in Front of Us
Landsat image gallery
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50th + Anniversary of Landsat Earth Imaging
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Landsat8DataUsersHandbook.pdf
Envisioning an Intergenerational Science Mission
The first land-focused Earth-observation satellite, Landsat 1 (initially called the 'Earth Resources Technology Satellite-1 / ERTS-1) is launched to Earth orbit from Vandenberg, CA.
Beginnings of Earth Science from Space #RemoteSensing #AtmosphericScience #EarthScience #OceanScience
The Landsat mission provided the first-ever, dynamic database of Earth View images of natural systems of life, a changing, evolving catalog record now decades long.
Let's look at a some examples!
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Afghanistan (Kabul) (AS) http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Afghanistan_Musa_Qala.png
Albania (Tirane) (EU)
Algeria (Algiers) (AF)
Andorra (Andorra la Vella) (EU)
Angola (Luanda) (AF)
Antigua and Barbuda (St. John's) (NA)
Argentina (Buenos Aires) (SA) https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.319977,-67.027137,18z/data=!3m1!1e3
Armenia (Yerevan) (EU)
Australia (Canberra) (AU) https://www.google.com/maps/@-40.298092,148.122879,18z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.350924,131.033805,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
Austria (Vienna) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@47.32094,14.381811,10z/data=!3m1!1e3
Azerbaijan (Baku) (AS)
(B)
Bahamas (Nassau) (NA) https://www.google.com/maps/@25.07918,-76.591772,14z/data=!3m1!1e3
Bahrain (Manama) (AS)
Bangladesh (Dhaka) (AS)
Barbados (Bridgetown) (NA)
Belarus (Minsk) (EU)
Belgium (Brussels) (EU)
Belize (Belmopan) (NA)
Benin (Porto-Novo) (AF)
Bhutan (Thimphu) (AS)
Bolivia (Sucre) (SA) https://www.google.com/maps/@-20.528732,-68.162533,14z/data=!3m1!1e3
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) (EU)
Botswana (Gaborone) (AF)
Brazil (Brasilia) (SA)
Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan) (AS)
Bulgaria (Sofia) (EU)
Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou) (AF)
Burma/Myanmar (Nay Pyi Taw) (AS)
Burundi (Bujumbura) (AF)
(C)
Cabo (Cape) Verde (Praia) (EU - Portugal)
Cambodia (Phnom Penh) (AS)
Cameroon (Yaounde) (AF)
Canada (Ottawa) (NA) https://www.google.com/maps/@61.737783,-80.044661,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Nunavut) --
Central African Republic (Bangui) (AF)
Chad (N'Djamena) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@18.431694,21.068799,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@19.859702,22.88013,9z/data=!3m1!1e3
Chile (Santiago) (SA) https://www.google.com/maps/@-49.477884,-73.141909,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
China (Beijing) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@39.436488,122.495408,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@37.082585,119.113293,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@37.209564,118.9971,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Colombia (Bogota) (SA) https://www.google.com/maps/@12.413842,-71.654549,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
Comoros (Moroni) (AF)
Congo (Brazzaville) (AF)
Congo, Democratic Republic of (Kinshasa) (AF)
Costa Rica (San Jose) (NA)
Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro) (AF)
Croatia (Zagreb) (EU)
Cuba (Havana) (NA) https://www.google.com/maps/@22.137059,-77.967798,14z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Camaguey)
Cyprus (Nicosia) (AS) and/or (EU)
Czech Republic (Prague) (EU)
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Denmark (Copenhagen) (EU)
Djibouti (Djibouti) (AF)
Dominica (Roseau) (NA)
Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo) (NA)
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East Timor (Dili) (AS)
Ecuador (Quito) (SA)
Egypt (Cairo) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@23.941236,32.866174,14z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@23.941236,32.866174,14z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@23.604734,25.315547,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@29.302219,30.04973,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
El Salvador (San Salvador) (NA)
Equatorial Guinea (Malabo) (AF)
Eritrea (Asmara) (AF)
Estonia (Tallinn) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@59.341845,28.096525,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@59.342633,28.059575,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) (AF)
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Fiji (Suva) (AU - Oceania)
Finland (Helsinki) (EU)
France (Paris) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@48.861467,2.333723,20z/data=!3m1!1e3 - https://www.google.com/maps/@44.46494,6.310588,14z/data=!3m1!1e3 (La Breole)
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Gabon (Libreville) (AF)
Gambia (Banjul) (AF)
Georgia (Tbilisi) (EU)
Germany (Berlin) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@51.610435,14.272799,18z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@53.722873,8.168953,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@49.836302,6.849632,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
Ghana (Accra) (AF)
Greece (Athens) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@37.970606,23.724844,11z/data=!3m1!1e3
Grenada (St. George's) (NA)
Guatemala (Guatemala City) (NA)
Guinea (Conakry) (AF)
Guinea-Bissau (Bissau) (AF)
Guyana (Georgetown) (SA)
(H) Haiti (Port-au-Prince) (NA)
Honduras (Tegucigalpa) (NA)
Hungary (Budapest) (EU)
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Iceland (Reykjavik) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@63.916203,-21.244136,14z/data=!3m1!1e3
India (New Delhi) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@23.011095,70.18346,11z/data=!3m1!1e3
Sunset over the Indian Ocean from the ISS
Indonesia (Jakarta) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@5.188905,97.330925,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Iran (Tehran) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@32.921169,59.493467,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
Iraq (Baghdad) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@36.712811,42.773724,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
Ireland (Dublin) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@53.37062,-6.253765,11z/data=!3m1!1e3
Israel (Jerusalem) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@31.154604,35.436641,11z/data=!3m1!1e3
Italy (Rome) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@45.427999,12.344211,11z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@40.91605,17.067934,18z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Bari)
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Jamaica (Kingston) (NA)
Japan (Tokyo) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@35.547519,139.779283,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Jordan (Amman) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@31.497723,36.642227,12z/data=!3m1!1e3
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Kazakhstan (Astana) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@44.77109,64.626093,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@50.319964,69.08687,13z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@43.41734,67.51554,14z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Zhanakorgan District) -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Kazakhstan3.png
Kenya (Nairobi) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@2.255778,37.939909,11z/data=!3m1!1e3
Kiribati (South Tarawa) (AU - Oceania)
Korea, North (Pyongyang) (AS)
Korea, South (Seoul) (AS)
Kuwait (Kuwait City) (AS)
Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) (AS)
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Laos (Vientiane) (AS)
Latvia (Riga) (EU)
Lebanon (Beirut) (AS)
Lesotho (Maseru) (AF)
Liberia (Monrovia) (AF)
Libya (Tripoli) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@30.593066,19.854564,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Ajdabiya)
Liechtenstein (Vaduz) (EU)
Lithuania (Vilnius) (EU)
Luxembourg (Luxembourg) (EU)
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Macedonia (Skopje) (EU)
Madagascar (Antananarivo) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.889134,43.654389,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Malawi (Lilongwe) (AF)
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@4.600434,118.63771,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@4.600434,118.63771,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
Maldives (Male) (AS)
Mali (Bamako) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@15.003676,-3.929028,12z/data=!3m1!1e3
Malta (Valletta) (EU)
Marshall Islands (Majuro) (AU - Oceania)
Mauritania (Nouakchott) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@20.589423,-16.523996,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@18.74017,-15.584714,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Mauritius (Port Louis) (AF)
Mexico (Mexico City) (NA) https://www.google.com/maps/@26.121948,-100.775338,11z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@27.909159,-110.884087,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Micronesia (Palikir) (AU - Oceania)
Moldova (Chisinau) (EU)
Monaco (Monaco) (EU)
Mongolia (Ulan Bator) (AS)
Montenegro (Podgorica) (EU)
Morocco (Rabat) (AF) (including Western Sahara) https://www.google.com/maps/@34.646157,-5.164068,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Mozambique (Maputo) (AF)
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Namibia (Windhoek) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.574971,15.050669,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.707851,15.455275,14z/data=!3m1!1e3
Nauru (no official capital) (AU - Oceania)
Nepal (Kathmandu) (AS)
Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@52.101296,4.379092,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
New Zealand (Wellington) (AU) https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.851881,172.146173,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Nicaragua (Managua) (NA)
Niger (Niamey) (AF)
Nigeria (Abuja) (AF)
Norway (Oslo) (EU)
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Oman (Muscat) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@20.625153,58.606224,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Oman.png
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Pakistan (Islamabad) (AS)
Palau (Koror) (AU - Oceania)
Panama (Panama City) (NA)
Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby) (AU)
Paraguay (Asuncion) (SA) https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.72693,-54.835742,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Alto Parana)
Peru (Lima) (SA) https://www.google.com/maps/@-4.829286,-80.929756,14z/data=!3m1!1e3
Philippines (Manila) (AS)
Poland (Warsaw) (EU)
Portugal (Lisbon) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@37.210867,-7.471838,19z/data=!3m1!1e3
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Qatar (Doha) (AS)
(R)
Romania (Bucharest) (EU)
Russian Federation (Moscow) (AS)
Rwanda (Kigali) (AF)
(S)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (Basseterre) (NA)
Saint Lucia (Castries) (NA)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Kingstown) (NA)
Samoa (Apia) (AU - Oceania) http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Samoa.png
San Marino (San Marino) (EU)
Sao Tome and Principe (Sao Tome) (AF)
Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@28.078924,34.659723,14z/data=!3m1!1e3
Senegal (Dakar) (AF)
Serbia (Belgrade) (EU)
Seychelles (Victoria) (AF)
Sierra Leone (Freetown) (AF)
Singapore (Singapore City) (AS)
Slovakia (Bratislava) (EU)
Slovenia (Ljubljana) (EU)
Solomon Islands (Honiara) (AU - Oceania)
Somalia (Mogadishu) (AF) http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Badhan_Somalia.png
South Africa (Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@-29.32023,24.96377,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
South Sudan (Juba) (AF)
Spain (Madrid) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@37.246042,-7.286028,19z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@36.875287,-5.142213,18z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@41.406985,2.175912,18z/data=!3m1!1e3
Sri Lanka (Colombo) (AS)
Sudan (Khartoum) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@13.674511,25.393353,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
Suriname (Paramaribo) (SA)
Swaziland (Mbabane) (AF)
Sweden (Stockholm) (EU)
Switzerland (Bern) (EU)
Syria (Damascus) (AS)
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Tajikistan (Dushanbe) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@38.894614,73.298504,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
Tanzania (Dodoma) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@-3.063896,37.339911,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
Thailand (Bangkok) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@13.4877,100.89729,18z/data=!3m1!1e3
Togo (Lome) (AF)
Tonga (Nuku'alofa) (AU - Oceania)
Trinidad and Tobago (Port-of-Spain) (NA)
Tunisia (Tunis) (AF)
Turkey (Ankara) (AS) & (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@37.442277,37.7745,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@38.999109,33.404297,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
Turkmenistan (Ashgabat) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@37.058191,62.603531,12z/data=!3m1!1e3
Tuvalu (Funafuti) (AU - Oceania) https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.976151,178.367023,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Tuvalu.png
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Uganda (Kampala) (AF)
Ukraine (Kiev) (EU)
United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@25.127063,55.141217,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
United Kingdom (London) (EU) https://www.google.com/maps/@51.158205,-0.167592,18z/data=!3m1!1e3 -- https://www.google.com/maps/@51.868932,-2.680307,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
United States (Washington D.C.) (NA) https://www.google.com/maps/@36.341553,-106.488322,18z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Rio Arriba County) -- https://www.google.com/maps/@35.590981,-106.070981,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Santa Fe) -- https://www.google.com/maps/@34.951911,-118.471369,16z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Kern County)
Arizona
Uruguay (Montevideo) (SA)
Uzbekistan (Tashkent) (AS)
(V)
Vanuatu (Port-Vila) (AU - Oceania) https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.612332,167.191594,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
Vatican City (na) (EU)
Venezuela (Caracas) (SA) https://www.google.com/maps/@11.190443,-70.800877,15z/data=!3m1!1e3
Vietnam (Hanoi) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@10.297804,105.262062,15z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Thoai Son) -- https://www.google.com/maps/@10.230076,105.708904,14z/data=!3m1!1e3 (Lai Vung)
(Y)
Yemen (Sana) (AS) https://www.google.com/maps/@15.709534,48.169529,14z/data=!3m1!1e3
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Zambia (Lusaka) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@-13.140351,27.8541907,2115178m/data=!3m1!1e3
Zimbabwe (Harare) (AF) https://www.google.com/maps/@-17.9243527,25.8558941,1009m/data=!3m1!1e3 (Victoria Falls)
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Google Maps introduces #Earth360 imagery
June 27, 2016
>Three years ago we introduced a cloud-free mosaic of the world in Google Earth. Today we’re rolling out an even more beautiful and seamless version, with fresh imagery from Landsat 8 satellite and new processing techniques for sharper images than ever before. Satellite images are often cloudy, but not always over the same place, so we looked at millions of images and took the clearest pixels to stitch together this cloud-free and seamless image.
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June 2013
>This new imagery of the earth from space virtually eliminates clouds, includes refreshed imagery for regions of the world where high-resolution imagery is not yet available, and offers a more comprehensive and accurate view of the texture of our planet's landscape.
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More Earthviews of "A Beautiful Planet"
"A Beautiful Planet"
IMAX theaters / Opens on April 29, 2016
- Video - https://youtu.be/edwZNH-ZKn4
Reviews
http://www.filmjournal.com/reviews/film-review-beautiful-planet
The images in 'A Beautiful Planet' are so incredible that its narration can feel like an afterthought. But this IMAX Entertainment production, made in cooperation with NASA, presents an impassioned and very persuasive message for advancing beyond fossil fuels.
Shot over two years and covering three space-station expeditions, A Beautiful Planet captures Earth in scenes of indescribable grandeur. A typhoon 300 miles wide fills the IMAX frame. Lightning dots a nighttime sky while aurora borealis glows on the horizon. The Caribbean positively shines under a full moon.
Director Toni Myers begins the movie by zooming into and through the Milky Way, singling out our sun, an ordinary star among millions. The enormity of the universe emphasizes how precarious our place on Earth is, how unusual the circumstances are to harbor life.
Close to two-thirds of the planet's surface is covered with water.
The blues and greens of oceans and lakes shimmer under the lenses of the astronauts' cameras (digital, a first for an IMAX space movie)...
Astronauts like Samantha Cristoforetti from Italy show viewers what it's like to live on a space station for months at a time. Drinking espresso, cutting hair, taking a "shower" become complicated procedures. Even celebrating Christmas takes ingenuity.
A shrinking glacier in Greenland in time-lapse photography... deforestation in Madagascar... Plumes of smoke extend for miles across empty fields that used to be rainforest in Brazil.
The movie accepts climate change as a given, and insists that we move from fossil fuels to renewable
Astronaut Cristoforetti suggests that we think of ourselves as crew members on a space ship instead of passengers, so that we can accept responsibility for protecting the planet. It's a message that should resonate with viewers of all ages.
A Beautiful Planet is more than just pretty pictures. Thoughtful and encouraging, it could change how viewers think about climate change.
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