THE EARTH ON ITS OWN BEAUTY

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It may be hard to believe, but this is not a real image of Earth from space at night.

They’re computer renderings created by Anton Balazh, a graphic artist who lives in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Balazh liked working with 3D programs, he tells Tech Insider, and thought a model of Earth would be fun to make.

For realism he downloaded countless gigabytes of real satellite images from NASA’s Visible Earth catalogs.

Then spliced in bathymetry data for a realistic-looking ocean floor and sea level data for accurate coastlines.

And, using NASA-based topography data, he lifted up mountain ranges that would normally look flat from space.

Credits:

Anton Balazh/Shutterstock – the creator

Dave Mosher of http://www.businessinsider.com/earth-night-space-images-relief-maps-2015-11/#theyre-computer-renderings-created-by-anton-balazh-a-graphic-artist-who-lives-in-st-petersburg-russia-4

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