Satellite Images of Continents
Each continent is (partially) shown here as seen from a satellite. The images are a "patchwork" of several different satellite images, which explains the lack of clouds. They are all taken at the same hour (noon or close), so there are almost no shadows.
| image:AfricaSatelliteImageSmall.jpg |
| Africa - Large version |
| image:AsiaSatelliteImageSmall.jpg |
| Asia - Large version |
| image:AustraliaSatelliteImageSmall.jpg |
| Australia - Large version |
| image:EuropeSatelliteImageSmall.jpg |
| Europe - Large version |
| image:NorthAmericaSatelliteImageSmall.jpg |
| North America - Large version |
| image:SouthAmericaSatelliteImageSmall.jpg |
| South America - Large version |
| image:AntarcticaSatelliteImageSmall.jpg |
| Antarctica - Large version |
| Images taken from UNEP (2003), ISBN: 92-807-2272-5 Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing Environment. Document available online as 13 MB PDF file: http://www.na.unep.net/publications/selected/Selected.pdf |
