Alam Mengembang Jadi Guru: Pemandangan Bumi dari Luar Angkasa II

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Pemandangan Bumi dari Luar Angkasa II

Bumi memang sangat menarik bila dilihat dari angkasa. Mungkin itu karena kita biasa melihat bumi di bumi itu sendiri, atau maksimal kita melihatnya dari pesawat terbang komersial. Namun hal ini perlahan lahan mulai menjadi halyang biasa sejak adanya internet dan google earth. Berbahagialah orang-orang yang pernah terbang ke luar angkasa dan melihat bumi dari sana, juga berbahagialah orang-orang yang melihat bumi dari luar angkasa meskipun hanya dari foto-fotonya ...

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission makes global observations of soil moisture over Earth’s landmasses and salinity over the oceans.

Earth as seen from the ISS: A ‘Green Sea’ of Aurora Borealis

Earth at Night

The Second Palm Island, Dubai. The islands are being built in shallow waters of the wide contintental shelf found off Dubai, using millions of cubic metres of sand dredged from the approach channel to the Jebel Ali port ? seen here adjacent to the artificial island named after it.

The Earth Observatory wrote, “Surrounded by darker, deeper ocean waters, coral atolls often glow in vibrant hues of turquoise, teal, peacock blue, or aquamarine. Belize’s Lighthouse Reef Atoll fits this description, with its shallow waters covering light-colored coral: the combination of water and pale corals creates varying shades of blue-green. Within this small sea of light colors, however, lies a giant circle of deep blue. Roughly 300 meters (1,000 feet) across and 125 meters (400 feet) deep, the feature is known as the Great Blue Hole.”

Banks Peninsula, New Zealand — a country offering snow-capped Alps and subtropics

The Moon and Earth from the ISS with love (NASA, International Space Station, 01/08/12).

IKONOS Venice. The Venetian Lagoon, a crescent-shaped body of water between the Italian mainland and the Adriatic Sea, covers 550 sq km and has an average depth of approximately one metre. The lagoon and Venice were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.

Beautiful Bora Bora Island, Polynesia.

Earth as seen from the ISS: Atlantic Coast at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 02/06/12)

Society Islands: “This Proba CHRIS image shows a typical atoll belonging to the Society Islands, part of the overseas territory of French Polynesia. The atoll is made of a deep central lagoon surrounded by submerged reefs and a small inlet, the main landstrip (8km long, 500m large) is densely vegetated.”

Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River: “China’s longest river and its second largest lake are central features of this Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image. Dongting Lake is the large L-shaped body of water, seen towards bottom right in the image. It – and the Central Yangtze region in general – is an important habitat for numerous aquatic species including the Yangtze freshwater dolphin. Dongting’s total area varies considerably as Yangtze flood waters pour into the lake between July and September, the period within which this image was acquired.”

Holbox Island, Yucatan “One of the world’s most important ecosystems, Holbox and its surrounding waters are part of the Yum Balam Biosphere Reserve. Its unspoiled beaches of fine white coralline sands are important for turtle nesting, and over 500 bird species can be found here. Caboe Catoche, the cape at the eastern tip of the island (right), is where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet. Their mingling waters create a kaleidoscope of turquoise and emerald hues.”

Titled “Land of Terror, Sahara, Algeria“: The image shows the extraordinary landscape of the Tanezrouft Basin, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, in south-central Algeria. The region is known as ‘land of terror’ because of its lack of water and vegetation.

The Chishima Islands and Hokkaido as seen from the space shuttle.

Agricultural fields radiate away from the well-defined outer boundaries of Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary. The dark areas on the right are dense forests.

Rugen, Germany: “The icy waters of the Baltic Sea surrounding Germany’s largest island, Rügen, are pictured in this image from Japan’s ALOS observation satellite. Sea ice blankets the surrounding brackish waters, hugging the island’s shores with its many peninsulas. The white lines that cut through larger ice-covered bodies of water are the remnants of ice-breaking boats and ships.”

Heart Island, Croatia.

Koror within the Caroline Islands of Palau “are visible in this Proba CHRIS image. The islands lie on the equator, 850km east of the Philippines. The population of Palau is approx. 20.000 the majority of which live on the island of Koror. A town of the same name at the top of the island serves as the capital.”

Previous Launching Pad for Space Shuttle Endeavour at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida

The Alps form a great crescent-shaped ridge extending from the Mediterranean to Austria.

Salty Lakes, Iran’s Neyriz Lakes, “Lake Bakhtegan (center) and Lake Tashk (top), situated in the Neyriz Basin, are salty lakes in the southeastern Zagros Mountains with fluctuating water levels according to rain and snowfall in the mountains.”

Disneyland Park, Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, CA

Comet Lovejoy Fading (NASA, International Space Station, 12/27/11).

Nebraska: “This 1-meter IKONOS satellite image depicts a crop field at Offutt Air Force Base in which the words ‘Thank You! For Freedom!’ are visible all the way from space.”