This is a NASA image of the Dasht-e Kevir, or 'valley of desert', in Iran. It is an uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that provide these patterns.GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics presents Earth as Art, a gallery of images using satellite images to convey the beauty of our earth's terrain.
This satellite image is of the Von Karman Vortices, airflow paths spiraling over the Pacific Ocean near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.Images courtesy of USGS National Center for EROS and NASA Landsat Project Science Office
