The images in this gallery were collected from two satellites orbiting the Earth: the IKONOS and GeoEye-1 satellites operated and maintained by GeoEye.
Satellite imagery captures a dazzling array of features in the natural landscape. How many can you identify? Where else would you expect to find them?
- atoll
- bay
- canyon
- crater lake
- erg
- fjord
- glacier
- lagoon
- moraine
- oxbow lake
- river
- shield volcano
- stratovolcano
- volcanic crater
atoll lagoon
Noun
shallow, circular body of water between the ocean and a ring-shaped atoll.
Noun
body of water partially surrounded by land, usually with a wide mouth to a larger body of water.
fjord estuary
Noun
place where a river or freshwater stream flows into a deep, steep gorge carved by a glacier and filled with seawater.
glacial lake
Noun
body of water created by a melting glacier.
Noun
shallow body of water that may have an opening to a larger body of water, but is also protected from it by a sandbar or coral reef.
sand dune
Noun
mound of sand created by the wind.
shield volcano
Noun
large, gently sloping volcano made from fluid lava.
stratovolcano
Noun
steep volcano made of hardened lava, rock, and ash. Also known as a composite volcano.