geoimagery

• Dan Farber
• January 8, 2013

Envisioning the Earth

Here are some cool images from earth satellites.  Fans of Benoit Mandelbrot may detect a fractal quality to many of them. The subject of this particular photo ois the Namib-Naukluft National Park, which includes  Namibia’s Namib Desert. Here, southwest winds have created the tallest sand dunes in the world, with some dunes reaching 300 meters in …

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