Crop Circles in the Desert

The 21 year progression of agricultural expansion in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia.
Looks almost like a disease.

The 21 year progression of agricultural expansion in the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia.
Looks almost like a disease.

This newly sewed image was taken in the IR spectrum “using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope”. Check out this comparison to the visual spectrum image.
The Large JPEG is a starry 13092×8926 pixels (117 megapixels!).
The ESO site has a myriad of other space related imagery, and even RSS feeds.
I really like Autumn.
The above html5 video loop is from today’s bing homepage, specifically the bing image archive which collects the daily image in one spot.
In Focus has some pretty pictures of Fall.