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.
Contents:
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 Rubert Bay, Canada -- Coral Cocos, Indian Ocean -- Bay of Whales, Russia -- Storms stir up sediment, Bermuda -- The meeting of waters, Brazil -- A laval 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 the 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.
Summary:
"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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.