Here’s an image of an underwater landscape, with the shallow Bahama Banks fading away into the massive 2000m (6600ft) deep Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO) trench…
Hubble Data & Galaxy Names
In the 1700s, Charles Messier, a French astronomer, spent countless hours scanning the sky in search for comets. Given the limited optical technology of the time, he occasionally came across blurry objects that appeared similar to comets, yet remained fixed in the sky…
Balbina
These unusual islands change in number from 1000 to over 3000 as the rainy season fluctuates water levels around 12m (40 feet)…
More Lakes Than Land
It’s thought that the orientation of these parallel thermokarst (thaw) lakes near the shoreline is no coincidence. As winter turns to summer, the upper layers of ice melt, and areas that had particular weight in ice become depressed, allowing water to pool…
Spring
Closer to the California coast, this island has a designated population of two people, yet is California’s largest island (three times the size of Manhattan). The longest sea cave in North America can be found here, along with island foxes…
Looking the Other Direction
The feeling of having access to the data from a 4.7 billion dollar instrument that has produced (with the ongoing help from thousands of scientists and engineers) some of the most groundbreaking and beautiful images of the universe gives me the shivers, and it almost feels like theft getting free access to nearly all of it…
Erupting Volcanoes
I might have gone a little overboard with this one. But I love the idea that one can track down satellite imagery to see Earth’s active volcanoes in action, especially when some of these remote or brief eruptions are barely captured on the ground…
South Pacific, Part 2
London, Paris, Poland, Banana. These are the town names on Kiritimati Atoll in Kiribati…
South Pacific, Part I
The South Pacific is a truly special place that I got a bit carried away exploring, to the point that I may need several posts to cover things I’ve come across…
The Empty Quarter
These depressions are thought to have once been lakes, with hippopotamus fossils, among others, found here. Today, the Empty Quarter contains the largest expanse of sand dunes in the world…
Baltic Bloom
If you look really close in the second image, you will see small lines streaking diagonally from the top right. These are boat paths, and if you zoom in enough, you may find a boat to give an idea of the immense scale of this bloom…
East Greenland Current (EGC)
Here, the cold East Greenland Current (EGC) sweeps down the coastline, carrying sea ice in beautiful braids such as this. Eventually, a warmer gulf stream current called the Irminger mixes with this flow…
Wave Clouds, Tristan da Cunha
Wave clouds arise by a disturbed atmosphere in the form of mountain waves…
Lac Manicouagan
Lac Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada. I stitched together a series of false color images from the Sentinel 2 satellite in order to produce this image, captured on August 2019…