'We share beautiful images of Earth because we believe in the overview effect: a transcendent cognitive shift that occurs when viewing the Earth from above, notably experienced by astronauts...' 🌍🚀🛰️

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You spend a lot of time star-gazing when your satellite office is in orbit. But the deeper we look at the cosmos, the more deeply we appreciate this blue marble we're lucky to call home and the vibrant diversity of life around us. Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day countdown: Australia

Throw a dart at the map of Australia and you’re bound to hit an intriguing landscape. The island-continent-country has deserts, mangroves, the world’s largest coral reef, and these rocky bluffs near Kimbolton on its northwestern shores.

Earth Day countdown: Asia.

Trace the coast of Pakistan and you’ll come across impressive mountain ranges, deserts, river estuaries, and beaches. It’s hard choosing just one, but some formations stand out more than most.

Our final Planet superpower? We're helping you look deeper.

Through multispectral bands and analysis, we’re able to look deeper into a place, an event, or an object in a way that characterizes and quantifies physical attributes over time.

Learn more:
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Earth Day countdown: North America

The only thing better than clouds outlining craggy topography? When vortexes form too. The fjords of Alaska’s western coast are spectacular in their own right, but we think a bit of cloud cover adds to the drama.

Let's look closer. 🛰️

In our third Planet superpower blog, we explore the benefits of looking at a place, event, or object in much closer detail than previously captured: planet.com/pulse/planet-s…

Earth Day countdown: Antarctica

Antarctica is cold, hard to get to, and often dark, making it the often forgotten seventh continent. But it’s where most of the world’s penguins live, which, by our standards, is enough to make it the best. Plus it has some pretty neat ice.

Let’s talk about your workflow.

You specify an area of interest, a time of interest, and a data resource; in turn Planet will deliver all the data that matches your criteria.

Learn how to do this today with the Planet Subscriptions API: planet.com/pulse/imagery-…

For the next blog in our series on Planet superpowers, we are looking backwards.

Learn how the Planet Insights Platform helps you to look back in time and space in order to establish historical baselines for broad area management: planet.com/pulse/planet-s…

Earth Day countdown day 3: Africa

A dead-end outlet in an ancient desert. Sossusvlei is a drainage basin for the ephemeral Tsauchab River, though it rarely reaches this far. In its wake, giant sand dunes have formed from millions-year-old sand in the Namib Desert.

We’re kicking-off the first in our blog series on Planet superpowers of broad area management.

Today, we’re looking broader.

Explore how Planet allows you to look across vast, far-reaching geographies and timescales to gain a full picture of events:
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Does life imitate art or art imitate life? The answer probably depends on who you ask. Either way we think it makes sense that a country known for its famous painters has tulip fields that appear as colorful canvases from above.

Saying hello to the Planet Insights Platform...👋

The global @Planet community gathered to explore how Earth data, analytics, and powerful tools can be used to create insights that characterize our changing physical Earth last week.

Catch the recap: planet.com/pulse/say-hell…

Next Monday is #EarthDay , a time to acknowledge the damage we've caused and remember what we’re fighting for: its biodiversity and beauty. At Planet, our mission is in orbit but our purpose is down on Earth, so we’re counting down with a continent-a-day. Up first: S. America.

Planet satellite imagery captures floods as Ural River bursts banks in Orsk, Russia 🛰️📸🌍

Read more in BBC News (World) 👇

Preparations for #Coachella weekend 1 are complete and we can hear the subwoofers from up here. See how the grounds of the Empire Polo Club transform within a few weeks:

With our Planetary Variables data feeds, you can measure and quantify the changing dynamics of our Earth, from soil moisture and land temperature to forest carbon and crop biomass.

Learn how to access these data feeds on our Planet Insights Platform:
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Accessing @Planet satellite data through NICFI Satellite Data Program, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and partner countries’ are driving impactful change in protecting global tropical forests.

Learn more here: planet.com/pulse/transfor…

One hour until our Planet Insights Platform virtual launch event!

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