The Earth as you never seen it before: fantastic picture taken from space
Earth is really amazing and we can see its beauty every day. But from space it looks really fantastic! These pictures will make you look at our planet from the angle you have never even imagine. Taken by astronauts and satellites, the images reveal all the opulence of forms and colors!
Kuskokwim river, the southwest of Alaska
Photo: Peter Griffith, NASA
Mackenzie River, Canada
Photo: NASA/USGS Landsat 8; Norman Kuring, GSFC
Cumulonimbus cloud over Africa
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Sierra de Velasco Mountains, Northern Argentina
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
A spinning formation of ice, clouds and low-lying fog off the eastern coast of Greenland
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Dragon Lake, Siberia
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Anti-Atlas Mountains, part of the Atlas Mountain range in southern Morocco, Africa
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branc
Kalahari Desert, Namibia (a false-color composite image made using near infrared, red and green wavelengths)
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
The clouds over the western Aleutian Islands
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Ghadamis River in the Tinrhert Hamada Mountains near Ghadamis, Libya
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Baffin Bay, Greenland
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad
Photo: USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Lake Carnegie, Western Australia (a false-color composite image made using shortwave infrared, infrared and red wavelengths)
Photo: USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Great Salt Desert (Dasht-e Kevir), Iran
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Icefall flows into world’s largest glacier — Lambert Glacier in Antarctica
Photo: USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
The Himalayas (a composite image made by combining near-infrared, red and green wavelengths)
Photo: USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Akpatok Island (Ungava Bay, Canada)
Photo: NASA/USGS Landsat 7 satellite; NASA Earth Observatory
Color explosion in Western Australia
Photo: NASA/USGS Landsat; Geoscience Australia
Lenticular cloud hovering near Mount Discovery in Antarctica
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Night lights
Photo: Robert Simmon, NASA’s Earth Observatory
Earthrise (from Moon)
Photo: NASA
Sand dunes (yellow streaks) that extend from Algeria into Mauritania in northwest Africa
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Blue Lagoon, New Caledonia
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
A geological formation in the Maur Adrar Desert in Mauritania, Africa
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
North and South Malosmadulu Atolls in the Maldives
Photo: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) onboard NASA’s Terra satellite
The confluence of the Parana and Paraguay Rivers northeast of the town of Corrientes, Argentina
Photo: NASA
The delta of Lena River, Russia
Photo: Landsat 7 satellite, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA
Coco River between Nicaragua and Honduras (simulated natural color image)
Photo: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) mission onboard NASA’s Terra satellite
Tidal flats and channels on Long Island, Bahamas
Photo: Expedition 26 crew member onboard the International Space Station, courtesy of NASA
Phytoplankton bloom off western Iceland
Photo: Aqua satellite
Lake Chad, Africa
Photo: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Blue silt off the southern coast of Louisiana as the Mississippi River flows off into the Gulf of Mexico
Photo: Enhanced Thematic Mapper instrument onboard the Landsat-7 satellite
Manam Volcano in Papua New Guinea
Photo: Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite
Free flying
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Patagonia blooms
Photo: NASA image created by Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Web
Bombetoka Bay, northwestern Madagascar
Photo: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Greenish phytoplankton swirl in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Mississippi River
Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/flickr (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
