The Mississippi River—North America‘s largest—unfurls like a teal ribbon through towns, fields, and pastures on the Arkansas-Mississippi border in a 2003 satellite picture. Overall, the Earth as Art collections provide “fresh and inspiring glimpses of different parts of our planet’s complex surface,” according to the USGS. Image courtesy EROS/USGS/NASA
Meandering Mississippi
March 11, 2011
Clouds and Mountains, Norway
March 7, 2011
The Screen Actors Guild Awards statues
February 20, 2011
