planet

The latest issue in the BBC Focus magazine collection is here! Earth From Above shows you our planet as you’ve never seen it before. Take a tour of Earth from the air and explore the world through incredible images.

Whether you’ve travelled the world in person, or from an armchair via a good book, or the remote control, you’re unlikely to have ever seen Earth like in this special issue of BBC Focus magazine.

It’s through these images that we begin to understand the true magnitude of our engineering achievements, and also the impact of our species on the planet.

Astronaut Jim Lovell summed it up well after he returned from orbiting the moon in 1968: “The moon is nothing but shades of grey and darkness. But the Earth – you could see the deep blues of the seas, the whites of the clouds, the salmon pink and brown of the land masses.” At one point on Lovell’s trip, the Earth was so far away that he could cover the whole globe with his thumb: “I realised how insignificant we all are if everything i’d ever known is behind my thumb.”

Prepare to be amazed…