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Image credits

These photographs and scientific images help connect the models to real places and observations. Their original authors, source pages and reuse terms are collected here. Cropping and resizing are recorded in each credit.

The creator portrait is supplied by Li Zeyu. Earth surface textures use NASA Blue Marble imagery; other dataset and texture sources are included in the relevant lab references.

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Snow patches and dark exposed ground across the Cairngorm mountains, with an RAF rescue helicopter in the foreground.

SAC Faye Storer / UK Ministry of Defence · Crown copyright / Open Government Licence v1.0 · resized

Image credits

Snow patches and dark exposed ground across the Cairngorm mountains, with an RAF rescue helicopter in the foreground.

Snow-covered Mount Adams viewed from the Naches Loop Trail in Washington.

Glen Canyon Dam holds back Lake Powell above a narrow river gorge.

Denver's skyline and distant mountain slopes seen from Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

A car on a Texas Panhandle road beneath a wall of airborne dust during the Dust Bowl.

Waves and wet sand beneath Naples Pier on Florida's Gulf coast at sunset.

Layered cliffs, mesas and deeply incised valleys of the Grand Canyon in evening light.

A physical marker of the historic Greenwich Meridian at the Royal Observatory.

An arching orange lava fountain erupts from a vent on Kīlauea amid dark cooling lava.

Aerial photograph of Spurn Point curving across the Humber estuary entrance.

Slope failures above the coast at Hong Kong's Redhill Peninsula after extreme rainfall.

Steep dark rock walls border the Almannagjá rift at Þingvellir, Iceland.

White chalk cliffs, offshore remnants and a wave-cut base near the Pinnacles in Purbeck.

Flooded streets and houses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Aerial view of abandoned buildings at the Kola Superdeep Borehole site in Russia in 2020.

A winding road descends Honister Pass through steep slopes in Cumbria.

Dry, deeply dissected loess slopes near Hunyuan in Shanxi, China.

Visitors and a park ranger stand in the broad limestone Broadway passage of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

The Mississippi River and Natchez–Vidalia Bridge seen from Natchez, Mississippi.

Aerial view of Bodie Island, its lighthouse, wetlands and Atlantic beach in North Carolina.

Phoenix's skyline, transport surfaces and desert mountains seen from Sky Harbor airport.

Aerial view of the San Andreas Fault cutting across dry hills in California.

The Huangpu River curves around Lujiazui's towers in Shanghai.

Snow on Gallt y Wenallt above mist in Nant Gwynant, Eryri / Snowdonia.

Nearly full Moon photographed from Hamois, Belgium, with dark maria and bright cratered highlands.

Floodwater surrounds Burrowbridge in the Somerset Levels in February 2014.

The Thames Barrier's silver piers beside the tidal river in London.

GOES-East satellite view of the Americas with tropical cloud bands and midlatitude weather systems.

Satellite view of Typhoon Mangkhut with a compact eye and spiralling cloud bands in September 2018.

Meteosat view of Earth's day–night boundary on the December solstice, with more of the Southern Hemisphere in daylight.

Sunlit shingle beach and coastal buildings at Southsea, Portsmouth.

Steam and orange microbial mats around Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.

People cross pale limestone blocks separated by deep joints above Malham Cove, England.

Yosemite Valley's forested floor between steep granite walls, viewed from Tunnel View.

A Puerto Rican soil profile has a dark surface above pale carbonate-rich subsoil, with a depth scale.

Rounded potholes cut into dark bedrock beside flowing water in the Presque Isle River, Michigan.

NASA CERES map of reflected shortwave radiation averaged over 2000–2015, with a 0–385 W m⁻² colour scale.

A hand pump used to draw groundwater at Perambalur, India.

Polygonal ground and ponds on the tundra in Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, photographed from the air.

Parallel rows of clouds extend from sea ice across open water in the Bering Sea.

Dense green tropical forest canopy at Bodiman, Cameroon.

The Hawaiian volcanic islands stretch across the Pacific beneath scattered white clouds in an ISS photograph.

Four NOAA surface analysis charts show pressure contours and weather fronts during a North American storm.

Tilted and folded sedimentary beds exposed at The Settlands coast.

Satellite image of the parallel folded ridges of the Appalachian Mountains and Chesapeake Bay.

USGS map showing the distribution of principal aquifers across the United States.

Grey London Clay exposed below yellow-brown Red Crag in the sea cliffs at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.

Glacier ice occupies a steep-sided mountain basin in Denali National Park, Alaska.

Green crystalline mantle peridotite enclosed by darker volcanic host rock at Peridot Mesa, Arizona.

A sequence of dark Venus silhouettes crosses the Sun in SDO ultraviolet observations.

Rounded grey stones and pebbles of different sizes on an English North Sea beach.

A soil profile on the Karelian Isthmus with a dark surface, pale leached layer and browner subsoil.

Tall orange sand dunes under a clear sky at Sossusvlei, Namibia.

Field photographs of red and black soils at different positions on the Addi Selam hillslope in Ethiopia.

Crescent-shaped dunes around Lagoa dos Barros on Brazil's Atlantic coast, seen from the ISS.

Aerial photograph of the Giens peninsula joined to the coast by two narrow sediment barriers.

Landsat view of the thin Chandeleur barrier islands off Louisiana.

Rounded pillow lava on a fissured seafloor at the Galápagos Rift, photographed by a NOAA expedition.

A karst spring in Alabama flows over rocks from a wooded limestone slope.

A broad, grassy former river valley near Blumberg, now drained by the much smaller Aitrach.

Tree roots grow into joints in rock beside a roadside exposure.

Grassland with scattered acacia trees in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Angular rock blocks cover the summit of Foel Fras in Wales.

Deep blue Crater Lake fills a broad volcanic depression, with Wizard Island near its western shore.

Rock contact exposed along the Moine Thrust at Knockan Crag in northwest Scotland.

Fossilised Ogyopsis klotzi trilobite preserved in dark shale.

Green phytoplankton and sediment-rich water off Mauritania's desert coast, observed by Aqua MODIS.

Green fields and wooded valleys on Exmoor in North Devon.

A pale specimen of kaolinite from Ixtassou, France.

Weather instruments inside the enclosure at Charterhall in the Scottish Borders.

A low shelf cloud sweeps over buildings at Brock University in Ontario.

A broad spiral of white clouds over the Pacific northeast of Japan.

Floodwater from the Stillaguamish River surrounds a picnic table and trees.

NASA Blue Marble satellite imagery displayed in the curved-outline Robinson projection.

The Moselle joins the wider Rhine beside the city of Koblenz, Germany.

NASA Blue Marble imagery in Mercator projection, with strongly enlarged high-latitude regions.

A breaking wave curls and foams along the coast at Porto Covo, Portugal.

Snow-covered Himalayan peaks and valleys photographed from the International Space Station.

NOAA bathymetry map of the South Atlantic showing continental shelves and the mid-ocean ridge.