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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷
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Google Earth is my copilot. Pictures of places I've never been. Hi-res / 4k on tumblr

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Low Orbit Tourist 🌍📷 @loworbittourist.bsky.social · Oct 20
Since there are lots of new people on Bluesky, here's a reintroduction :

Low Orbit Tourist, since 2016 I'm looking for cool satellite imagery on Google Earth, both natural and human altered/made. All of them are available in 4K/HD

Here is a few example, thanks in advance for the reposts !
United States Army Security Agency (USASA) Field Station Augsburg - West Germany the picture is showing a green field of grass on which a big circular antennae structure is visible, in its center, another circular structure is present Sudan a desertic landscape seen from above, in which a clear sandy zone melds into black sand. a black dot is present on the left side in the middle of the clear sand, giving it an abstract painting quality Gwangyang industrial complex - South Korea a huge metalwork complex seen from above. from right to left we can see the raw ore, then metal foundries, then more plants and the big hangars in which the end product is probably stockpiled Roter Kamm crater - Namibia a cicrcular red/orange crater in the middle of an red/orange desert, seen from above
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aerialembroidery.bsky.social
I've now opened a raffle for this embroidery landscape - direct link below! The listing has full details for the reason and how to enter, the process, etc. This is a vital moment for me so any post engagement/shares will be extremely helpful! victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a... #art
An embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape inspired by vibrant Autumn woods. It depicts trees rich in oranges, reds and golds, winding blue streams, a country lane and wild moorland animals.
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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paolette.bsky.social
Calendrier de l'avent de la nature
#Caldavent2025
3 décembre

On joue avec "cours d'eau"

Juillet 2019
Entrelacements de cours d'eau glacés dans le Parc de Denali en Alaska.
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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xkcd.com
Satellite Imagery

xkcd.com/3173/
Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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kevinmgill.bsky.social
Saturn’s rings take on the appearance of a golden record as the planet approaches equinox in May, 2009.

flic.kr/p/2ogCo4k
A planetary ring system. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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loworbittourist.bsky.social
Lençóis Maranhenses national park - Brazil

🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/pNKHeXSkgkKn...
4K link : imgur.com/a/oy7aD6g
A satellite picture of white sand dunes interspersed with turquoise and green freshwater lagoons. The dunes form undulating patterns, and the lagoons vary in shape and size. A satellite picture of a of a desert featuring white sand dunes, dark rocky outcrops, and reddish-brown sediment layers. The terrain displays swirling, abstract patterns with high contrast between light and dark areas. A satellite picture of a desert landscape with white and brown swirls of sand and rock.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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loworbittourist.bsky.social
If you want to learn more : youtu.be/biGJ_5t30Lk?...
It Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
loworbittourist.bsky.social
Lençóis Maranhenses national park - Brazil

🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/pNKHeXSkgkKn...
4K link : imgur.com/a/oy7aD6g
A satellite picture of white sand dunes interspersed with turquoise and green freshwater lagoons. The dunes form undulating patterns, and the lagoons vary in shape and size. A satellite picture of a of a desert featuring white sand dunes, dark rocky outcrops, and reddish-brown sediment layers. The terrain displays swirling, abstract patterns with high contrast between light and dark areas. A satellite picture of a desert landscape with white and brown swirls of sand and rock.
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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esa.int
📷 This week's #EarthFromSpace is #Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of a spectacular geological wonder in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania: the Richat Structure. 👇

🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

@esaearth.esa.int
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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agou.bsky.social
Moui allez je m'y lance. Je crée, imprime et vends des jolies cartes à accrocher chez soi (cartes de tous les départements de France et aussi bientôt les régions, ça s'étoffe petit à petit au fil des mois)
Imprimé sur du très joli papier 310g

👏 www.finke.fr
carte ancienne de france carte du cantal carte de l'allier carte géologique du cantal
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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loworbittourist.bsky.social
Cimetière Montparnasse - Paris - France

🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/5JbkRtWM1DGA...
4K link : i.imgur.com/bUM8HhS.jpeg
A satellite picture of a cemetary showing a large, grid-like layout of tree-lined paths dividing densely packed graves. A central circular plaza is surrounded by symmetrical quadrants. The cemetery is bordered by urban buildings.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
loworbittourist.bsky.social
Cimetière Montparnasse - Paris - France

🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/5JbkRtWM1DGA...
4K link : i.imgur.com/bUM8HhS.jpeg
A satellite picture of a cemetary showing a large, grid-like layout of tree-lined paths dividing densely packed graves. A central circular plaza is surrounded by symmetrical quadrants. The cemetery is bordered by urban buildings.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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lecartographe.bsky.social
Naples, FL 🇺🇸
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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loworbittourist.bsky.social
Ciudad Marsella - El Salvador

🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/7fRMz5McV6dU...
4K link : i.imgur.com/HhhoGaI.jpeg
A satellite picture of a suburban neighborhood with uniformly designed white-roofed houses arranged in a grid-like pattern. Streets curve and intersect symmetrically. At the center, there is a green space featuring a circular structure, pathways, and a few buildings.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
loworbittourist.bsky.social
Ciudad Marsella - El Salvador

🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/7fRMz5McV6dU...
4K link : i.imgur.com/HhhoGaI.jpeg
A satellite picture of a suburban neighborhood with uniformly designed white-roofed houses arranged in a grid-like pattern. Streets curve and intersect symmetrically. At the center, there is a green space featuring a circular structure, pathways, and a few buildings.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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loworbittourist.bsky.social
Details of the Garzweiler surface mine - Germany

🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R...
4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5
A satellite picture of a large mining site with multiple open pits, exposed earth layers, and water-filled trenches in varying colors. Machinery and vehicles are scattered across the terrain, with a central excavator near the middle. Dirt roads and linear patterns mark the landscape, indicating active industrial activity A satellite picture of a large open-pit mining site with terraced layers of excavated earth forming curved and parallel patterns. The upper area shows light-colored terrain, while the lower sections reveal darker, systematically mined zones. The scene illustrates industrial-scale resource extraction. A satellite picture of a landscape with diagonal bands of colorful sediment or rock in shades of purple, orange, black, white, and beige. A satellite picture of a large open-pit mine with terraced layers of excavated earth in colors like purple, black, orange, and yellow. A flat central area contains buildings and equipment, connected by roads across the site. The stepped terrain reveals geological strata shaped by industrial mining.
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
loworbittourist.bsky.social
and in 2025 even, are those people serious ?
screenshot of the comment section on my Tumblr : jeffartgalary : Hello you have some clean artwork pics.... I will love to buy a collection of your artwork as NFT.... message me if you’re interested. loworbittourist : I'd rather cut my own leg than ever do a NFT, thanks
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
loworbittourist.bsky.social
Details of the Garzweiler surface mine - Germany

🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/JJbyiLQvkJ8R...
4K link : imgur.com/a/h5r35F5
A satellite picture of a large mining site with multiple open pits, exposed earth layers, and water-filled trenches in varying colors. Machinery and vehicles are scattered across the terrain, with a central excavator near the middle. Dirt roads and linear patterns mark the landscape, indicating active industrial activity A satellite picture of a large open-pit mining site with terraced layers of excavated earth forming curved and parallel patterns. The upper area shows light-colored terrain, while the lower sections reveal darker, systematically mined zones. The scene illustrates industrial-scale resource extraction. A satellite picture of a landscape with diagonal bands of colorful sediment or rock in shades of purple, orange, black, white, and beige. A satellite picture of a large open-pit mine with terraced layers of excavated earth in colors like purple, black, orange, and yellow. A flat central area contains buildings and equipment, connected by roads across the site. The stepped terrain reveals geological strata shaped by industrial mining.
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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loworbittourist.bsky.social
Factory Butte - Utah - USA

🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/G6YVCv5fE8pN...
4K link : i.imgur.com/08vSUM2.jpeg

This one is an experiment around processing, by combining satellite pictures from 2012 and 2025 and playing with fusion masks, the colors are very much artificial but the rest is not.
A satellite picture of a mountainous region with a central dark mountain, surrounded by radial ridges and erosion patterns in shades of red, brown, and white indicating varied elevation and terrain.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
loworbittourist.bsky.social
Factory Butte - Utah - USA

🌎 : maps.app.goo.gl/G6YVCv5fE8pN...
4K link : i.imgur.com/08vSUM2.jpeg

This one is an experiment around processing, by combining satellite pictures from 2012 and 2025 and playing with fusion masks, the colors are very much artificial but the rest is not.
A satellite picture of a mountainous region with a central dark mountain, surrounded by radial ridges and erosion patterns in shades of red, brown, and white indicating varied elevation and terrain.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Ganges Chasma Rim (natural color) - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2hFSFbW
The lower slopes of the northern Ganges Chasma rim. A thick pile of sediment eroded from the steep canyon rim has accumulated along the canyon walls, forming a relatively flat surface that gently slopes towards the center of the canyon. Water flowing out of the narrow rim canyons incised into this plain, forming shallow, terraced valleys. This water may have originated as meltwater during the retreat of glaciers that formerly occupied many of the canyon wall valleys. This image combines two 40 m/px natural color CRISM hyperspectral images (600 nm, 530 nm, and 440 nm as RGB channels, respectively) with a 5 m/px monochrome CTX image. The CRISM images were collected on February 1, 2010 and June 13, 2007, and the CTX image was collected on December 19, 2013 Image Credit: NASA / JPL / MSSS / JHU / APL / Justin Cowart
October 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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rsimmon.bsky.social
Hurricane #Melissa update: imagery from dawn until about 2:00 pm local time, when the eye was squarely over Jamaica. At landfall sustained winds were about 185 mph, making Melissa one of the strongest hurricanes ever.
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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jeremiefaivre.bsky.social
Río Tapiche, une cartographie sonore des méandres d'un sous-affluent de l’Amazone dans la partie péruvienne du bassin amazonien, composée à partir d’enregistrements de terrain réalisés en 2019.
Le lien vers la carte sonore :
www.jeremiefaivre.eu/sonore/tapiche
#fieldrecording
Une carte sonore égrainant des sons le long d'un affluent de l'amazone : le Río Tapiche.
February 18, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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loworbittourist.bsky.social
Details of the North Australian coast - Australia

🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/g11PYgzqDXb2...
4k link : imgur.com/a/pyRPLft
A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns. A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns. A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns. A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns.
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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uahirise.bsky.social
HiPOD: A Song of Ice and More Ice

This stunning image shows part of the South Polar residual ice cap, a term that refers to ice that lingers well past a seasonal change. Our science goal here is to look for any changes in the ice cap.

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076435_0940
#Mars #science #NASA
October 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
loworbittourist.bsky.social
Details of the North Australian coast - Australia

🌏 : maps.app.goo.gl/g11PYgzqDXb2...
4k link : imgur.com/a/pyRPLft
A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns. A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns. A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns. A satellite picture of the seawater on a coastline, with dark blue and teal tones interweaving in abstract patterns.
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM