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Nobody s palette

  • 29/11/2002

Nobody s palette Who is the artist?
Recently, an uninhabited aerial vehicle (uav) hovered over a coffee plantation in Hawaii. Its digital imaging systems clicked over 300 photographs, all of them high-resolution. The uav's controllers, nasa (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, usa) scientists and researchers, were able to deftly avoid cloud cover. They could come up with the amazing photograph seen here.

This effort is part of a larger one. nasa has set up an Earth Observatory, a high-tech eye in the sky. Its purpose is a completely unaesthetic one. Different regions of the earth