这作品来自“dailyoverview”，空看地球每一角落，惊讶之余，这些作品展示了地球另一种“美”。


1 Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the border between Ontario, Canada and the United States.






6 The salt evaporation ponds seen here cover roughly 10 square miles (26 square km) in San Francisco Bay, California, USA.

7 This one captures Angkor Wat — a massive temple complex surrounded by a moat in Cambodia.


8 Rice paddies, constructed in steps, cover the mountainsides of Yuanyang County, China. Cultivated by the Hani people for the last 1300 years, the slope of the terraces varies from 15 to 75 degrees with some having as many as 3,000 steps. As we’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about prints,


9 The Forbidden City in Beijing, China was built from 1406 until 1420 by more than one million workers. The palace complex, which contains 9,999 rooms, is surrounded by walls and a moat that are 26 feet high and 171 feet wide, respectively.


10 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This shot shows Christ the Redeemer, a 635 metric ton statue that is located at the peak Corcovado mountain, overlooking the city.






12 Bondi Beach is located in Sydney, Australia and gets its name from the Aboriginal word “Bondi” that means waves breaking over rocks.



13 The planned city of La Plata, the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, is characterized by its strict grid pattern. At the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the new city was awarded two gold medals for the “City of the Future” and “Better performance built.”



14 The city of Karlsruhe, Germany was planned with a palace tower at its center, surrounded by 32 radiating streets. Because the design resembled the ribs of a folding fan, the city is sometimes called the “fan city” or “F?cherstadt." Additionally, this city's urban plan gave rise to the geometry concept of “Karlsruhe Metric” which refers to a measure of distance that assumes travel is only possible along radial streets and along circular avenues around the center.







16 Washington, D.C., USA. The city's L'Enfant Plan was developed in 1791 by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant for George Washington, the first President of the United States. L’Enfant designed a compass-aligned grid for the city’s streets, with intersecting diagonal avenues that were later named after the states of the union. The diagonal avenues also intersect with the north-south and east-west streets at circles and rectangular plazas in order to create more open, green spaces. Lastly, L'Enfant laid out a 400 foot-wide (122 meter) garden-lined “grand avenue” - what is now know as the National Mall – that connects the US Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial (the latter two are visible at right in this Overview).


17 Located in the province of Flevoland in the Netherlands, the village of Creil contains many farms that specialize in the growth of flower bulbs.








19 On this day 47 years ago, almost to this exact minute, we landed on the Moon for the first time. Broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience, Neil Armstrong took humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface. Joined later by Buzz Aldrin, the crew stayed on the moon’s surface for a total of roughly 21.5 hours. The moon landing fulfilled a national goal, first outlined by John F. Kennedy in 1961, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely back to Earth by the end of the 1960’s.

20 The construction of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia involved the removal of the top half of Capital Hill (the mound on which the structure was built). After the project was completed, much of the displaced earth was replaced on top of the building where a lush, green lawn now grows. While much of Canberra was designed by by Walter Burley Griffin in 1913, this specific complex opened in 1988, is designed to look like two boomerangs, and contains approximately 4,400 rooms.



21 The top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This shot captures the Euro 2016 Fan Zone at Champ de Mars and was taken by Kaylabernardino. The quarterfinals of the tournament are currently underway with a match today between Wales and Belgium. If you are ever in Paris, the Eiffel Tower offers the highest vantage point in the city, rising 1,063 feet (324 meters).


22 The Golden Gate Bridge. The 1.7 mile long structure spans the Golden Gate Strait, the mile-wide channel between San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. The bridge’s signature color, known as “international orange”, was selected to complement its natural surroundings and enhance its visibility in fog.


23 Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia that is the largest religious monument in the world (first it was Hindu, then Buddhist). Constructed in the 12th century, the 820,000 square meter site features a moat and forest that harmoniously surround a massive temple at its center.


24  The stunningly vibrant tulips fields in Lisse, Netherlands that are in peak bloom at this time every year. The country produces 4.3 billion tulip bulbs annually.


25  The space shuttle Endeavour, lifting through the clouds during its final launch in May 2011. The photograph was captured from a nearby NASA shuttle training aircraft.


26 Earth from one million miles away, captured by a camera aboard the NASA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft on July 6, 2015.


27 Central Park in New York City. Located in the middle of Manhattan, the park spans 843 acres - or 6% of the borough. One of the most influential innovations in the park's design was its "separate circulation" systems for pedestrians, horseback riders, and automobiles. This concealed "crosstown" commercial traffic in sunken roadways (known as "transverses" today), and densely planted shrub belts in order to maintain a rustic ambiance.


28 “For here am I sitting in a tin can
      Far above the world,
      Planet Earth is blue
      And there's nothing I can do”

A beautiful Overview inspired by the late David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”

Image courtesy of @NASA, showing Bruce McCandless II's spacewalk on February 7, 1984.



29 Melrose Park is a residential community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The neighborhood is planned with streets in eight concentric octagons and contains 1,975 households.


30 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured this amazing Overview of Earth while orbiting around the moon. This individual image was composed from a series of shots taken on October 12 when the LRO was about 83 miles (134 kilometers) above the moon and traveling faster than 3,580 miles per hour (over 1,600 meters per second) relative to the lunar surface below.


31 Avola is a city located in the province of Syracuse, Sicily. After Avola was destroyed by an earthquake in 1693, the city was reconstructed in a new location using a geometric, hexagonal plan created by the friar architect Angelo Italia.


32 The Al Falah Housing Project is located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The development covers 12.5 million square metres with 4,857 villas as well as mosques, schools, a shopping mall, and a hospital.


33 The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is an artificial island that was created with 3.3 billion cubic meters of sand and 7 million tons of rock.



34 The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, USA. The building has five sides, five floors above ground, and five ring corridors on each floor that have a combined length of 17.5 miles.


35 The Sepang Goldcoast Resort in Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. The hotel features over-water bungalows that extend out in a palm-shaped formation into the calm waters of the Malacca Straits.


36 A turbine interchange in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Also known as a whirlpool interchange, this structure consists of left-turning ramps sweeping around a center interchange, thereby creating a spiral pattern of right-hand traffic.


37 The United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. is the seat the country’s Congress and the legislative branch of the federal government. The Capitol Dome, which is currently enclosed in scaffolding (until 2017), has undergone numerous expansions and restorations since it was first added to the building in 1855. The total weight of the dome is 14.1 million pounds.




39 A whirlpool interchange connects three major roads by the Miracle Garden in Dubai, UAE. When construction of this junction began in 2006, Dubai contained 30,000 industrial cranes - 25% of all cranes on the planet.


40 Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery in Madrid, Spain is one of the largest cemeteries in the world. The number of gravesites - estimated at five million - is greater than the population of Madrid itself.


41 "Desert Breath" - located in the Egyptian desert near Hurghada on the Red Sea - is a double-spiral art piece. Because the 89 protruding cones that make up one spiral are constructed from the sand that was dug to create the 89 depressed cones of the other spiral, in due time, with erosion, the area of approximately one million square feet will revert back to its original state.