NASA Earth photo book: NASA has just released 168 pages of stunning images showing the atmosphere, water, soil, ice and snow from the perspective of a satellite. The interactive online version is free for everyone, and if you want to add the book to your personal library it will cost you 53 dollars.
The book is called Earth.
In case you consider the printed version of project doesn't make sense to you, the interactive online version exists in the NAS Earth ObservatoryA. And if you must definitely get the book, there are free versions of PDF, MOBI (Kindle), and ePub.
The interactive version of the NASA Earth photo book allows visitors to click on photos that are accompanied by descriptions and give context to the abstract pictures.
Click on the category of ice and snow, for example, and you will be presented with something that looks like a Rorschach inkblot test. The text on the left explains that the picture taken by the Earth Observing-1 satellite in 2010, it is the Mertz Glacier flowing between the East Antarctic Icebergs into the Southern Ocean.
If you want to know more about a photo, you will find a link to the “full story” where you will find additional references.
If you're wondering why NASA has such a project that clearly took a lot of work to create, the agency hopes that Earth will “inspire others to explore, understand and expresspriceyou are the planet we call home (s.s.: from home)".
The decision to offer free publications is an effort to reach out to those looking for solutions to major global issues such as changing freshwater availability, food security and human health.
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