There are more than 2,000 satellites above our heads, some of them are used for photography. They map and archive everything they photograph. Long stored in the databases of NASA photographs, we have selected 55 most spectacular photographs of the Earth as taken from space.
1. The coral reefs of the Bay of Princess Charlotte – Australia
2. Fires in Cuba and Florida
3. The Florida Keys – Florida
4. Clouds Roll over the Pacific Ocean
5. Smoke of volcano Gaua – Vanuatu Archipelago
6. Little Rock, Arkansas – United States
7. Pavlof Volcano, Alaksa – United States
8. Strait of Tiran – Saudi Arabia
9. The Danube flows into the Black Sea
10. Minas Gerais – Brazil
11. Broken Antarctic glaciers
12. Mergui Islands – Myamar
13. Sand Trails of the Namibian coast
14. Hurricane Sandy
15. Sediment off the Spanish coast
16. Coast of the United Arab Emirates
17. Cocos Islands
18. Valley of the Indus River, India
19. Korangi, Pakistan
20. Istanbul at night
21. Liverpool Bay – Canada
22. Sediments seen in the Connecticut River
23. Plumes of smoke from the volcano Nabro – Danakil Desert
24. Aurora photos taken from the International Space Station
25. Glacier Medvezhiy – Tajikistan
26. The delta of the Yukon – Canada
27. Cat Island, Bahamas
28. The resort of Durrat Al Bahrain – Bahrain
29. Islands of the Brazilian coast
30. Cape Cod, Massachusetts – United States
31. Doha – Qatar
32. Floodplain of the Syr Darya River – Kazakhstan
33. Confluence of the Ohio and Wabash – United States
34. St. John (U.S. Virgin Islands)
35. Greenland
36. Millennium Island – Kiribati
37. Maalhosmadulu Atolls – Maldives
38. The world at night
39. Mataiva Atoll – French Polynesia
40. Imja Tsho, Nepal
41. Pyramid Lake, Nevada – United States
42. Tikehau Atoll – French Polynesia
43. Ice in the Arctic Ocean
44. Garden City, Kansas – United States
45. Manam volcano – Papua New Guinea
46. Mount St. Helens, Washington – United States
47. New Orleans – United States
48. New Caledonia
49. Seabed and layers of sand – Bahamas
50. Sakurajima volcano – Japan
51. Sarychev Volcano – Kuril Islands
52. Shinmoe-dake volcano – Japan
53. Phytoplankton in the sea
54. Trail of smoke from the twin towers of the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001
55. Lake Carnegie – Australia
Wow! It’s amazing to see these extraordinary views of earth. We could have never seen these views without satellites.What breathtaking view did you like the most?
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