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Planet Earth

by Robert Foreword Hughes
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Planet Earth
Planet Earth

Earth's transformation through satellite imagery.

If you've ever marveled at the giant leaps in technology and how they enable us to see our planet in extraordinary new ways, "Planet Earth" will fascinate you. This book doesn't just showcase the strength of satellite technology; it offers a profound perspective shift, showing Earth's vulnerabilities and changes over time. It'll change the way you see your home—our home—in the cosmos.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Planet Earth

by Robert Foreword Hughes
$13.90
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ISBN: 9780224069168
Authors: Robert Foreword Hughes
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, 2002.
Date of Publication: 2002-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science, Nature, Art
Related Topics: Astronomy, Nature, Space, Natural History, Environment, Travel, Art and Photography, Photography
Goodreads rating: 4.25
(rated by 4 readers)

Description

Once we used to watch space from Earth. Now we can watch the Earth from space. It is half a century since the first satellites beamed back their information. Space offers us a position from which we can look at ourselves and our ecosphere. We can record the transformation of our habitat - the drying of river estuaries, the disappearance of islands beneath the sea, the melting of polar icecaps. We can see the Earth as a single breathing entity. Planet Earth is a collection of astonishing satellite imagery that has been gathered by the German Space Centre in collaboration with space centres from Mexico to India and with its partners at NASA. The photographs have been made by machines in space, not by intrepid astronauts. The photographs have been processed through computers and can reveal more than is normally visible to the human eye - the floor of the ocean bed, geological strata and the eye of the hurricane. At first Planet Earth appears as a catalogue of the unfamiliar. Much of the information is astoundingly beautiful but unrecognisable. Gradually, as the captions are read, the data is translated, then the shapes and colours begin to become legible. The evidence of civilisations emerges - the Rock of Jerusalem, the Pyramids and the Coliseum. Planet Earth is the logical sequel to Full Moon, published by Jonathan Cape in 1999 on the thirtieth anniversary of the moon landing. Full Moon was the narrative of a journey to the Moon and a
 

Earth's transformation through satellite imagery.

If you've ever marveled at the giant leaps in technology and how they enable us to see our planet in extraordinary new ways, "Planet Earth" will fascinate you. This book doesn't just showcase the strength of satellite technology; it offers a profound perspective shift, showing Earth's vulnerabilities and changes over time. It'll change the way you see your home—our home—in the cosmos.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.