Caribbean Sea Gallery

Whole Earth (Blue Marble 2000)

Whole Earth. Composite satellite image of Earth centred on the Americas. This is Blue Marble 2000, one of the most detailed Earth images ever made. It was done to update the original "blue marble" images taken by Apollo astronauts. It is the result of the combination of data from three Earth-observing satellites. A GOES satellite took the overall Earth image, SeaWiFS gathered ocean colour data and the AVHRR instruments on POES satellites mapped the vegetation. Hurricane Linda, a huge spiral storm system, is at centre left. Relief features have been exaggerated by 50 times. The Moon (upper left) has been superimposed on the image, and is not to scale

© NASA/GSFC/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Barbados, satellite image

Barbados. Landsat image of the island of Barbados in the Caribbean sea. North is at top. Barbados has a total land area of about 430 square kilometres. It is primarily low-lying, with some higher regions in the country's interior. The highest point of the island is Mount Hillaby, located in the parish of Saint Andrew (upper left)

© PLANETOBSERVER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Naval battle off Puerto Rico, Spanish-American War

U.S. Navy cruiser "St Paul" shelling Spanish destroyer "Terror" off San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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