EarthArt: Colours of the Earth will be published by Phaidon in November 2013
Alien Earth: Our Planet from Above
Earth can look pretty unearthly sometimes. In honor of Earth Science Week, TIME presents Bernhard Edmaier's aerial, and close up, photographs from his new book "EarthART"
Bernhard Edmaier
Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy.
The lava of the Sicilian volcano Etna rolls like a glutinous pap into the nearby valley, finally stiffening into a heavy, brittle crust. It takes days, sometimes even weeks, for the magma, which is several hundred degrees Celsius, to cool down.