Meandering Mississippi
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
Glaciers surrounds Baffin Bay
Along Greenland’s western coast, a small field of glaciers surrounds Baffin Bay. Image credit: NASA/Landsat
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Spiraling eddies across the northern Pacific Ocean
As air flows over and around objects in its path, spiraling eddies, known as Von Karman vortices, may form. The vortices in this image (from satellite) were created when prevailing winds sweeping east across the northern Pacific Ocean encountered Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Image courtesy of USGS National Center for EROS and NASA Landsat Project Science Office
