‘The poetry of the earth is never dead,’ John Keats once wrote. But when Keats wrote these lines, man had no way of reaching up to the hem of the sky and gaze down upon earth. That has changed today, with high-powered lenses staring straight into earth’s beauty. Here we bring to you some wondrous imagery that is the planet itself, captured in all its glory from above and afar.
An aerial view of the Iguazu Falls is seen in the Argentinian northwest province of Misiones. Raul Puentes/Reuters
A farmer walks behind a tractor sowing a field near Arras, northern France. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Tatshenshini-AlsekPark is seen during a flight over northwest British Columbia. Bob Strong/Reuters
Egmont National Park in New Zealand with Mt.Taranaki at its center is seen in a Landsat 8 satellite image. NASA/Reuters
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