Re-entry

Jebel Kissu, Sudan

Landsat 8

Acquired 2019-04-19

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 6

Jebel Kissu, in northwestern Sudan, emerges abruptly like an island in the vast Sahara Desert. The plateau is the eroded remnant of a granite dome. The bright linear features are truck tracks, common in the Sahara where there are no paved roads. Resembling graphic novel art style, this image could be an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, burning across a twilight sky.

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U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 6. 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 2019-04-19Landsat 8

OA-003

Re-entry

Jebel Kissu, Sudan

Landsat 8

Acquired 2019-04-19

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 6

Jebel Kissu, in northwestern Sudan, emerges abruptly like an island in the vast Sahara Desert. The plateau is the eroded remnant of a granite dome. The bright linear features are truck tracks, common in the Sahara where there are no paved roads. Resembling graphic novel art style, this image could be an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, burning across a twilight sky.

Curated from

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 6. Imagery in the public domain; the edit and sequencing are Orbital Artifacts’.

Limited edition

19 of 19 remaining

Available as

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

← Back to archive

← Previous

Whirlpool in the Air

OA-002

Next →

Malaspina Glacier

OA-004