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Satellite image or artwork? Play the game.

March 22, 2013 TopSpacer

Images of earth from space often look both amazingly beautiful and intriguingly abstract. Here’s a fun exercise in trying to tell a set of earth observation images from artworks like those one might see at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MOMA) in New York City: NASA or MOMA? Play the Game! Here are some pictures. Were they taken in space, or painted here on Earth? – Megan Garber/The Atlantic

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