Patterned Planet

A tear in the forest canopy of the Congo has been created by the movement of elephants.

A paninga turtle heads deep into the burning desert for an extraordinary weather event. Rain fill the dunes, creating hundreds of pools. Only from space can we appreciate the scale of the transformation.

The world’s longest beaver dam in Alberta and an island of unexplored forest on top of vertical cliffs in Mozambique are two incredible discoveries made using satellite images.

From space earth’s surface is covered in weird and wonderful shapes. Wombats design their own landscape in Australia and hundreds of forest elephants create a tear in the endless green of the Congo forest canopy.