Credit: NASA

A new NASA app features time-lapse satellite images of locations on Earth undergoing significant change over decades.

This app celebrates Earth’s aesthetic beauty in the patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere.

The app has a thumbnail gallery of the images as well as an interactive directory with images organized by geographic region. Each image has a brief caption and the ability to enlarge each scene.

Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Over the decades, satellites have provided invaluable information, and the vantage point of space has provided new perspectives on Earth. This app celebrates Earth’s aesthetic beauty in the patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere.

To learn more, go to:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-earth-as-art/id577527077?mt=8

This app is based on a newly released NASA: Earth as Art.

For a free, download of this publication, go to:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/703154main_earth_art-ebook.pdf

By Leonard David