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"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." But to us,
it's everything. The place where we live, love, work and play. The place
where we are born and where we die. From space, Earth is big, blue and
beautiful; fragile and inspiring. It's the only planet we've ever been
to, and the only home we've ever known.
This image, captured by the Landsat-8 satellite, shows the view over
Western Australia on May 12, 2013. The image shows rich sediment and
nutrient patterns in a tropical estuary area and complex patterns and
conditions in vegetated areas.
The image is enhanced and involved masking, separately enhancing and
then reassembling water and land portions of the image. The water
patterns are the result of an RGB display of Landsat-8’s red, blue, and
ultra-blue bands. Land is shown using short-wavelength-infrared,
near-infrared and green.
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NASA/USGS Landsat; Geoscience Australia. Source: Landsat gallery.
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