There lies a leafy island
March 17th, 2009 § 2 Comments
Whilst searching for a celebratory Saint Pat’s pic this one stopped me in my tracks. Isn’t it stunning! It’s a true-colour picture of Ireland taken from space. You don’t get more green than that! It was taken by NASA’s MODIS imaging equipment which captures the entire planet every two days and records changes in the oceans, the sky and on land.
I know my Dad would love it as much as I do. He’s a surveyor with a passion for maps and an inbuilt GPS.
Credits | Image at Wikimedia Commons | Title from The Stolen Child, William Butler Yeats.
Thanks Marion. I’m sure there are more gorgeous shots, I’d love to see some more myself. Perhaps a search under NASA MODIS may cough something up. I’d like to see just how red Australia’s red centre appears from space.
that is an awesome pic, it is almost as though there are no people/development there at all, like how it was originally.
i wonder if there are pix of other parts of the world like that…