NASA website lets you spell your name using real images of Earth

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Forget standard fonts – NASA has launched a website where you can create words using stunning, actual photographs of Earth. The images are truly amazing!

This year has seen a lot of fun and unusual content become popular online, like silly cat games, collectible Wikipedia cards, and even games controlled by a piano! Now, NASA is joining the trend with a new website that’s likely to be a sensation.

‘Your Name in Landsat’ is a fascinating project that uses decades of satellite images from NASA and the USGS to create letters out of natural landscapes. It’s a truly unique way to spell out names and see places, people, and things in a completely new and visually stunning way – a much more impressive ‘font’ than anything I’ve encountered before.

Spell out your name using NASA satellites

You can create a personalized map showing where on Earth your name appears! Just visit the NASA website and enter your name. The site will use satellite data to find locations around the globe that visually form each letter of your name.

Hovering over each panel will display the geographical information for that location. For example, panel D from TopMob is located on Akimiski Island in Canada.

As a space enthusiast, I love being able to click on a spot on the map and instantly find out more about it – and even see when NASA first captured a satellite image of that exact location! It’s a really cool feature.

So, I was reading up on this, and apparently, NASA’s Landsat program has been taking pictures of the Earth’s land since 1972! It’s seriously been going non-stop ever since, and they say it’s the longest continuous record of our planet from space – that’s a long time to be snapping pics!

Since it became available, this data has helped us monitor many things, including shrinking forests, expanding cities, changes in coastlines, and how farming seasons are evolving. This makes it a valuable tool for researchers and scientists globally, who use the images to study the environment and how we’re affecting the Earth.

NASA has had a viral moment before this year with its ‘Your Name in Landsat’ site. Earlier, they surprisingly honored the anime series Sailor Moon during the announcement of the Artemis II moon mission.

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2026-04-23 14:49