NASA’s Beautiful Satellite Images

NASA has a new free iPad app out called Earth as Art, and it compiles over 70 of their most amazing satellite images.

Via FastCoDesign:

[The App’s images] cover all corners of the globe, from the craggy outlines of the Susitna Glacier in Alaska to the Bogda Mountains in China, the latter of which showcase “purple mountain majesty” in a very literal sense. Alas, in the introduction to the collection, NASA notes that the image sensors on these satellite cams can “measure light outside the visible range, so the images show more than what is visible to the naked eye.” The images, we are reminded, “are intended for viewing enjoyment rather than scientific interpretation.”