New NASA Book Shares Beauty of Earth from Space

The rivers that flow into Rupert Bay in northern Quebec carry water stained brown with natural chemicals found in plants, as shown in this satellite view captured by Landsat 8 on July 30, 2016. This is one of the 69 images from space in the new book, Earth. Photo by NASA.

Swirling white clouds, deep blue oceans and multicolored landscapes bring to life the pages of NASA’s new 168-page book Earth, a collection of dramatic images captured by Earth-observing satellites. The book is available now in hardcover, e-book and online with interactive features.

From a lava field in Iceland to the icy Patagonian landscape of South America, the 69 images in Earth present our home planet’s atmosphere, water, land, and ice and snow with short explanations of the science behind each image. Wisconsin is featured in one image from May 23, 2014, where ice can still be seen at that late date – the start of Memorial Day weekend that year – on Lake Superior in Chequamegon Bay.

“The spectacular images in this book remind us of the majestic beauty of our world,” said Lawrence Friedl, program director for the Applied Sciences Program in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Earth Science Division in Washington, D.C. “We hope these images inspire everyone to explore, understand and appreciate the planet we call home.”

Earth is available for purchase in hardcover from the U.S. Government Publishing Office at bookstore.gpo.gov/products/earth-book. A free e-book version can be downloaded at nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/earth_detail.html. An interactive online version is posted on NASA’s Earth Observatory at

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/earth-book-2019.

For more information about NASA’s Earth-science programs, visit nasa.gov/earth.