By Gemma Simpson, 17 November 2006 16:10
Google Earth and the European Space Agency (ESA) are showcasing the planet with 130 satellite images added to the planetary prowler from ESA's satellite image library.
Included are images of volcanic eruptions, dust storms and changing ice glaciers from ESA's satellites.
Above is the daunting sight of Hurricane Katrina, as seen by ESA's Envisat satellite, off southern Florida, when it was category one on the Saffir-Simpson scale measuring hurricane intensity on 25 August 2005.
Photo credit: European Space Agency
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1. Gary Lowe
Excellent pictures and story, but ruined by that stupid global switch advert that keeps moving the whole page up and down.
2. anonymous
Agree with Gary Lowe. I appreciate that silicon.com relies on advertising to exist, but when will advertisers realise that obtrusive banners do not make me more likely to buy that company's products or services? Quite the contrary.
3. Gareth Davies
Totally agree with the previous comments. That ad is so bloody annoying!
4. Rob
Agree with the other 2.
Silicon you might want to let global switch know that there marketing dept obviously has unqualified web luddites in it, will not being buying anything from them.
Besides that, great article, love the pics, I want to be one of those satellites, what a great (and more rarely), peaceful view of the world.
5. Chris Blake
Yeah what a pain that ad is, they really don't need to be that 'in your face'.