The European Space Agency updates its photo archive every week with photographs of the Earth taken by satellites.
The archive consists of thousands of images, dated back to 2005. The images capture wide-angle snapshots of various landscapes
The satellites images can capture environmental changes to the Earth’s landscape in real-time, from a creeping blanket of air pollution to damage done by an earthquake.
This long-term monitoring provide provides an assessment of our global impact and effect on the Earth in lots of different ways.
Visit the archive at http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Image_archive
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