NASA has recently published a free ebook called Earth as Art, which brings together years’ worth of beautiful satellite photos from around the world. This one, for instance, is a stunning shot of the Himalayas in Central Asia. Check out this gallery to see some more of our favourites.
Rocky Mountain Trench, Canada
Lean River Delta, Russia
Bogda Mountains, China
Byrd Glacier, Antarctica
Bombetoka Bay, Madagascar
Carnegie Lake, Australia
Dasht-e Kavir, Iran
Erg Chech, Algeria
Garden City, United States
Images: NASA
Love the Garden City shot, one of the more mesmerizing ways humanity has left its mark on the planet. Is it a regular photo, or is it using other means to apply the colouring?
Looks like false colour satellite imagery to me, might be worth mentioning in the article perhaps?
from the link "Earth-observing environmental satellites can measure outside the visible range of light, so these images show more than what is visible to the naked eye. "
Therefore, they are false coloured (or at least, colour mapped) to apply visible colour to non-visible infrared wavelengths.