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© 2026 Orbital Artifacts

Imagery curated from Earth as Art, courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data.

Bleeding Heart — Kazakhstan — Landsat 8

Acquired 2017-03-14Landsat 8

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Bleeding Heart

Kazakhstan

Landsat 8

Acquired 2017-03-14

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5

A feathery, blood red streak cuts across the heart of this image. The translucent red paint stroke is not actually a feature of the land. It is a cirrus cloud detected by Landsat 8’s cirrus band. This cirrus cloud, which hovers over the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, is invisible in natural color imagery.

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U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

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