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