ATOLL

Credits, top to bottom:

1. Mataiva Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. 
2. Bokak Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
3. Arno Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
4. Tetiaro Atoll, Society Islands, French Polynesia. 
5. Pearl and Hermes Atolls, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 
6. Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. 
7. Atafa Atoll, Tokelau Islands.
8. Nukuoro Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia.
9. The Tuamotu Archipelago, chain of atolls, French Polynesia. 
10. Malosmadulu Atolls, Maldives.

ULTIMATE WORLD CRUISE

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael K�nig on Vimeo.

TODAY'S PACIFIC

20 Nov 2011, 2100 UTC. Credit: NOAA-NASA GOES Project.

RIVER'S END

Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers, India and Bangladesh

Amazon River, Brazil

Yukon River, Alaska

Lena River, Russia

Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Rivers, the Netherlands

Irrawaddy River, Burma

Mackenzie River, Canada

Saskatchewan River, Canada

Niger River, Mali

Nile River, by night, Egypt

All satellite eye candy courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory.

SEA ICE

Above, a timelapse of sea ice forming off Estonia.


Ice Breaking aboard the Akademik Shokalskiy from Finn O'Hara on Vimeo.

Above, icebreaking off Greenland, with a jaunty soundtrack and fogbows.

All photos courtesy NASA:

1. Sea ice under the combined influences of wind and ocean currents forms a frosty filigree along Kamchatka's volcano-dominated coastline, Russia.
2. Icebergs along Princess Ragnhild Coast, Antarctica.
3. Icebergs calving from East Antarctica's Matusevich Glacier.
4. Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada. 
5. Parry Channel, Canada. 
6. Neumayer Glacier, South Georgia Island.
7. Greenland coast.
8. Yukon River Delta, Alaska.
9. Guano-stained ice, the mark of emperor penguin colonies, visible below the bergs frozen into the ice in the center of this image of Antarctica�s Luitpold Coast.

OCEANS FROM ORBIT

1. Tidal flats and channels, Long Island, Bahamas
2. Al Wadj Bank, Saudi Arabia 
3. Mangroves and coral reefs, Viti Levu, Fiji 
4. Svalbard 
   
5. Gulf of Mexico sediment
6. Lagoons and reefs of New Caledonia
7. Tuamotu Archipelago
8. Southern Patagonia Icefield, Chile
9. Swirling sediment in the Gulf of Alaska
10. Sea ice in the Bering Strait

All images courtesy NASA's Earth Observatory.