Earth looks breathtaking in high-resolution photos from China’s new satellite

EARTH looks amazing from above. 10 new photos from China’s new high-resolution satellite camera will leave you in awe of our beautiful planet.

There’s a river cutting through mountains here. The red and brown show different types of shrubs, trees and grass.

BACK in April last year, China launched its first satellite with high-resolution camera technology into space. The country’s space agency has finally released its first images from up above and the results are awe-inspiring.

On top of delivering some amazing images, yesterday the China National Space Administration also said that Chinese authorities had used images taken from the new satellite to detect illegal border activity and take down marijuana farmers.

For now though, here’s a look at 10 images of our planet. They’re all in false colour, which adds to the beauty, but for reference; water will show up as blue, dirt will be a shade of grey and vegetation as red.

These are some mountains near Changzhi. The white on the right is snow, while the pink on the left is farms.

These are some dried lakes, with a touch of water up the top right and a road going across.

The blues here at the Qinghai Lake look incredible, especially shown against the whites of the sand.

Some farms along a beach. Different shades of blue show different depths of the water.

Giant jellyfish!? Unfortunately not, that’s called an alluvial fan and is a deposit of sediment at the mouth of a canyon.

This image is deceiving. Those fields up the top aren’t actually green yet, but the mountains in pink below are completely green.

This is a plateau that has been cut by erosion. You can also see a stream that goes right through the valley.

This is mainly desert with the red depicting mountains and a small body of water in the dark blue.