Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Satellite Images of Continents Each continent is (partially) shown here as seen from a satellite. The images are a "patchwork" of several different satellite images, which explains the lack of clouds. They are all taken at the same hour (noon or close), so there are almost no shadows. Africa - Large version   Asia - Large version   Australia - Large version   Europe - Large version   North America - Large version   South America - Large version   Antarctica - Large version Images taken from UNEP (2003), ISBN: 92-807-2272-5 Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing Environment. Document available online as 13 MB PDF file: http://www.na.unep.net/publications/selected/Selected.pdf This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.