April 22 marks the 45th anniversary of Earth Day. To celebrate the beauty of our home planet, NASA releases specular images of Earth taken from space by astronauts on the International Space Station, satellites and spacecrafts. Here are some of them.
For more photos, please visit the website of NASA. (Clicking on each image, you can see detailed information.)
Island of Hawaii From the International Space Station:
Growing Deltas in Atchafalaya Bay, the United States:
Coloring the Sea Around the Pribilof Islands, Alaska:
The World's Protected Areas from Space, Egmont National Park in New Zealand:
Yellowstone:
The U.S. Gulf Coast at Night:
Windswept Valleys in Northern Africa:
Venice Lagoon:
A Portrait of Global Winds:
Alaska's Susitna Glacier:
Watercolor Canvas, Tassili n'Ajjer National Park (a part of the Sahara Desert):
Siberia's Lena Delta:
Another World, Lake Dagze Co, Tibet:
Guinea-Bissau in West Africa:
Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas:
Lake Naivasha, Kenya:
International Space Station Flyover of Australia:
