No Man's Land

Africa

Landsat 5

Acquired 2009-09-09

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3

A study in shades of blue and brown is actually one of the harshest landscapes on Earth. This glimpse of Africa's Sahara Desert, located near where the borders of Mali, Niger, and Algeria converge, is truly a no man's land, a world of sand and rock without roads or settlements. The horizontal lines across the top half of the image are intrusions of igneous rock, where magma poked up to the surface from deep underground.

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U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

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

Acquired 2009-09-09Landsat 5

OA-051

No Man's Land

Africa

Landsat 5

Acquired 2009-09-09

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3

A study in shades of blue and brown is actually one of the harshest landscapes on Earth. This glimpse of Africa's Sahara Desert, located near where the borders of Mali, Niger, and Algeria converge, is truly a no man's land, a world of sand and rock without roads or settlements. The horizontal lines across the top half of the image are intrusions of igneous rock, where magma poked up to the surface from deep underground.

Curated from

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 3. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

Limited edition

31 of 31 remaining

Available as

Not yet in the shop. Get in touch → for commissions or an early print of this scene.

← Back to archive

← Previous

The Syrian Desert

OA-050

Next →

Impact

OA-052