04771cam a22005898i 4500 001083824 PUCPR 20250127135048.0 181012s2018 dcua f000 0 eng 2018048628 9781626830479 (hardback) 1626830479 (hardback) (OCoLC)1057237983 DGPO/DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF GPO pcc x------ BEV QB637 .C37 2018 0830-C 910.020222 23 NAS 1.2:EA 7/21 23 910.020222 Carlowicz, Michael J., author. Earth / [Michael Carlowicz, and five others]. Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Earth Science, NASA Headquarters, [2018] vii unnumbered pages, 168 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Shipping list no.: 2019-0013-S. "The poetry of earth is ceasing never.--John Keats, "on the Grasshopper and Cricket."" "NP-2018-05-2546-HQ."--Page 4 of cover. Foreword ATMOSPHERE -- Curving Cloud Streets, Brazil and Bolivia -- A Trio of Plumes, South Atlantic Ocean -- Filling the Valleys, Peru -- A Glorious View, Pacific Ocean -- Punching Holes in the Sky, United States -- Bering Streets, Arctic Ocean -- Riding the Waves, Mauritania -- Cloud Shadow, Germany -- Double Trouble, Pacific Ocean -- Making Tracks, Pacific Ocean -- Tracing the Coast, China -- Four Mountains Stand Out, Pacific Ocean -- Framing an Iceberg, South Atlantic Ocean -- Valley Fog, Canada -- Holuhraun Lava Field, Iceland -- Lofted Over Land, Madagascar WATER -- Channel Country, Australia -- Tea-Colored Rupert Bay, Canada -- Coral Cocos, Indian Ocean -- Bay of Whales, Russia -- Storms Stir Up Sediment, Bermuda -- The Meeting of the Waters, Brazil -- A Lava Lamp Look at the Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean -- Teeming Life in the Strait of Georgia, Canada -- Ephemeral Lake Frome, Australia -- Dueling Blooms, Barents Sea -- A Bay Sculpted by Ice, Canada -- Tidal Flats and Channels, Bahamas -- The Blooming Baltic, Baltic Sea -- Waves Beneath the Waves, Trinidad -- Land of Lakes, Canada -- Plankton and Sulfur, Namibia -- Aland Islands, Scandinavia -- Crater Lakes with Clear Water, Canada -- Mergui Archipelago, Southeast Asia -- Scarlet Lake Natron, Tanzania -- Swirling Bloom off Patagonia, Argentina LAND -- A Curious Ensemble of Wonderful Features, United States -- Megadunes and Desert Lakes, Mongolia -- Colorful Faults of Xinjiang, China -- Bowknot Bend, United States -- From Rainforest to Rain Shadow, United States -- A Blaze of Color, Sweden -- Folds and Curves of the Kavir, Iran -- Fanning Out in Farmland, Kazakhstan -- The Zones of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania -- Liwa Oasis, United Arab Emirates -- Don Juan Pond, Antarctica -- Linear Dunes, Caprivi Strip, Namibia -- Harratt Lunayyir Lava Field, Saudi Arabia -- Taranaki and Egmont, New Zealand -- Cultivating a Border, China and Kazakhstan -- Barrier Islands, Brazil -- Tsauchab River Bed, Namibia ICE AND SNOW -- Mertz Loses Part of Its Tongue, Antarctica -- Swimming with Ice Cubes, United States -- Franz Josef Land, Arctic Ocean -- No Green in This Land, Greenland -- Mackenzie Meets Beaufort, Canada -- Sea Ice at Shikotan, Japan and Russia -- North Patagonian Icefield, South America -- Manning Island and Foxe Basin, Canada -- Ice Water, United States -- Omulyakhskaya and Khromskaya, Russia -- Phytoplankton on Ice, Antarctica -- Heart-Shaped Uummannaq, Greenland -- Puma Yumco, China -- Grounded in the Caspian, Kazakhstan -- Ice-Covered Delta, Canada "NASA studies Earth in novel ways and with ingenious tools, examining it from beneath the crust to the edge of the atmosphere. This book provides a visual journey of our beautiful and compelling planet as viewed from above."--Provided by publisher. Earth (Planet) Photographs from space. Earth (Planet) Remote-sensing images. Earth (Planet) Earth (Planet) fast Photographs from space. fast Remote-sensing images. fast Friedl, Lawrence 301850 author Ward, Kevin A., 1968- 301851 author United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, issuing body. GPO01 BOOK NAS 1.2:EA 7/21 20181129 01 FDL19000386 sudocs 21 303489 303489 0 0 sudocs 0 0 10 10 5 2019-02-08 Federal Depository 0 NAS 1.2: EA7/21 80000002649039 2025-01-27 13:53:07 2025-01-27 21