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In this satellite image from Tuesday, smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts over the Pacific Ocean. The fires have been outlined in red by NASA. (NASA via Reuters)

Lonely Planet: Satellite Pictures Drive Home The Fragility of Our Earth
By Philip Kennicott (Washington Post Staff Writer,Thursday, October 25, 2007; Page C01)

If you need satellite images to put the news of the day in perspective, the news is probably not good. Satellite photography is the preferred method for announcing the arrival of hurricanes and it has become indispensable to showing the scale of the fires that are ravaging Southern California this week. It is also a popular visual accompaniment to stories about global warming and disappearing ice caps.

 

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