Amazing earth images viewed from satellites

GeoEye commercial satellite company has just released a 2011 calendar set of impressive photos of places on our planet taken from an altitude of 683.8km on the surface of the Earth.

GeoEye 's 2011 calendar calendar has recorded the natural and man-made beauty of our planet from outside, from the panoramic view of the world's highest Everest mountain, the famous American national golf course Augusta. the vast beaches of a desert in Namibia, the canal network of St Petersburg (Russia) and the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in the world.

Possessing 3 satellites operating in space, the Virginia-based GeoEye - the US company - has provided exclusive images for Google Earth and Google Maps applications . Last year alone, GeoEye collected a total of 340 million square kilometers of photos. The company's latest satellite called GeoEye 1 is even capable of acquiring an object the size of a beer barrel from a height of 684 km on the surface of the Earth.

" Our biggest customer is the US military and is mainly the US space geographic intelligence agency. We have provided them with clear images up to 50cm on the ground ", Elizabeth Eli ' Doerr - a representative of GeoEye company revealed.

Let's take a look at some impressive images in GeoEye's calendar:

The Burj Khalifa Tower, the tallest building ever built on Earth, was captured by the GeoEye 1 satellite from a height of 4371.65km on the Earth's surface on February 9, 2010.


Mount Everest is 8,850 meters above sea level. The photo above captures the highest peak in the world on November 21, 2009.


The red tile roofs in the Italian city of Siena. In the center of the photo is the famous Piazza del Campo Cathedral Square.


China's largest Takla Makan Desert lies in the middle of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Province. This is one of the largest "shifting sand" deserts in the world.


Some of the most incredible wildlife and wildlife populations in the world can be found in the center of the "sandy sea" of the Namib desert in Namibia, southwestern Angola. Here, the world's tallest sand dunes are nearly 300 meters tall. The interaction between wind and sand over the past 55 million years has formed this vast and incredible desert.


First hole at Augusta Golf Club, USA. Each hole in the yard is named after a tree or shrub. The club hosted the first Masters Tournament, one of the four major professional golf championships in the world, on March 22, 1934.


Greek island of Santorini with beautiful white towns clinging to the cliff.Photo taken on July 3, 2010.