Unfriendly Landscape

Jordan

Sentinel-2

Acquired 2017-06-30

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5

In this region, called the Valley of the Moon in Jordan, steep-sided granite mountains alternate with sandy valleys. It may be an unfriendly landscape, but it makes nice textures for an art print. An intriguing interruption of those textures is provided by a few center pivot irrigation fields.

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

Acquired 2017-06-30Sentinel-2

OA-096

Unfriendly Landscape

Jordan

Sentinel-2

Acquired 2017-06-30

U.S. Geological Survey — Earth as Art 5

In this region, called the Valley of the Moon in Jordan, steep-sided granite mountains alternate with sandy valleys. It may be an unfriendly landscape, but it makes nice textures for an art print. An intriguing interruption of those textures is provided by a few center pivot irrigation fields.

Curated from

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

Limited edition

10 of 10 remaining

Available as

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

← Back to archive

← Previous

Bleak Midwinter

OA-095

Next →

Moody Carvings

OA-097