Really! "Earth As Art," a free e-book from NASA, shows off surreal photos of Earth with light taken outside the visible spectrum. Here are 19 of our favorites.

The Himalayas
The Himalayas NASA

It's already unlikely we'll get a view as good as the ones collected in "Earth As Art," a new, free e-book from NASA. The collection has years' worth of beautiful satellite photos from around the world, reaching across Africa to Asia to Antarctica. But what's even more interesting, as NASA scientist Lawrence Friedl points out in the introduction, is that "these satellites can measure light outside of the visible range, so the images show more than what is visible to the naked eye." Here are our favorites.


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These are spectacular pictures. Though, from a scientific and informative perspective, it would of been nice if PoPSCi would explain why the pictures the way they do and or for what purpose.

Pretty pics! ;)



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