Sharq El Owainat, Egypt Sahara Desert crop circles fill the frame in this odd-looking shot. This one features colorful salt ponds in Spain. Spain Another stunning shot from Kelly taken during one of his visits to the space station. Kelly, who took the photo, titled it: “Out over the blue.” NASA/Scott Kelly 19. Sea and cloud Earth seen from space, with oceans and clouds filling the frame. The feature in the image is 28 miles (45 km) across and made up of igneous and sedimentary rocks. Richat Structure of Mauritania, Africa This remarkable picture shows an uplifted dome where the rocks exposed in the center of the “bullseye” are older than those forming in the outer rings.
Bahamas Featuring seas near the Bahamas, this image was captured by Kimbrough from the space station. Yemen Precambrian rocks (more than 540 million years old) and expansive dunes in Yemen’s interior, captured from the ISS. Aurora A beautiful aurora captured by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough during a stay on the ISS. “Lake Van water levels have changed by hundreds of meters over the past 600,000 years due to climate change, volcanic eruptions, and tectonic activity,” the Earth Observatory says. While some parts of the lake are shallow, other parts can be up to 1,467 feet (450 meters) deep.
It shows Turkey’s Lake Van, the largest soda, or alkaline, lake on Earth.
Lake Van, Turkey NASA astronaut Kate Rubins shot this photo from the space station. Captured from the ISS, the image also shows the curvature of Earth. Florida The night lights of Florida, including part of the Florida Keys at the bottom right of the picture. It shows the Namib Sand Sea and the blue and white dry river bed of the Tsauchab. Namib Desert, Southern Africa Another image featuring the Namib Desert, this one captured by Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite. The Earth Observatory describes the feature as “one of the most recognizable points on the planet” for astronauts gazing down at Earth. Great Exuma Island, Bahamas Looking more like painted art than a photo of Earth, this striking image shows small island cays in the Bahamas and the tidal channels that flow between them. The image includes Huascarán, Peru’s tallest mountain, which soars 22,204 feet (6,768 meters) above sea level. Cordillera Blanca mountain range, Peru Peru’s snow-capped Cordillera Blanca mountain range on a misty winter morning, as seen from the ISS. The crater, visible near the center of the picture, is believed to have been created by a car-sized meteorite that slammed into Earth around 5 million years ago. Namib Desert, Southern Africa This image shows the Roter Kamm crater (“red comb” or “red crest/ridge” in German), a feature about 430 feet (130 meters) deep and 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) in diameter. Mount Fuji, Japan Peer down into the caldera of Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji, the country’s tallest mountain at 12,389 feet (3,776 meters). “The sandy color of these channels and of the coastal water illustrates how much sediment the river carries to the sea at this time of year,” the Earth Observatory says. state of Alaska, captured during the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Yukon Delta, Alaska This one shows the Yukon Delta in the U.S. This one shows a frozen lake in the Himalayas. Himalayas NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured a lot of incredible Earth photos during multiple missions aboard the space station. “I have never been to Australia, but the country is a constant supplier of three-star Earth Art,” the French astronaut said of the image, adding: “It is hard to judge from space if a landscape will be as amazing up close, but I definitely want to go and check regardless!” NASA/ESA/Thomas Pesquet 5. Australia Another impressive image taken by Pesquet, this one shows a region of Australia, though the precise location isn’t specified. Captured from the ISS, it shows part of Doha, the capital city of Qatar in the Middle East, and also the Pearl-Qatar, an island built in the water. The Pearl-Qatar While most of the shots in this collection show natural features, this eye-catching image shows an area dramatically transformed by humans. For scale, the dune margin shown in this photo is slightly more than 62 miles (100 km) long,” the NASA’s Earth Observatory says. “These landscapes are among the driest parts of the Sahara Desert. Grand Erg Oriental, Algeria Here we see the boundary between a major dune field and dark hills along the border between Algeria and Libya, as seen from the ISS. Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Taken by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) around 250 miles above Earth, this image shows the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.
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