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Astronauts
have been capturing photographs of the ever-changing Earth for more
than 40 years, and NASA has been cataloging and studying them since
the beginning. This page is an archive of images that have been
featured on the JSC Web. For more images, visit Astronaut
Photography of Earth.
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 Istanbul,
Turkey - This
metropolis of 15 million people occupies both sides of the entrance
to the narrow, 32-kilometer (20-mile) long Bosporus Strait connecting
the Mediterranean and Sea of Marmara to the south and the Black Sea
to the north. |
 Mount
Saint Helens, Washington -
Mount St. Helens has provided unprecedented opportunities for U.S.
researchers to collect scientific observations of the geology of an
active volcano and document the regional ecological impact and recovery
from an eruption. |
 Greenhouses
of the Campo de Dalías, Spain - The
sunny area south of Spain -- known as Campo -- offers more to the
national economy than simply tourism. Over the past 50 years, the
small coastal plain has been intensively developed for agriculture.
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 Betsiboka
Estuary, Madagascar - The
Betsiboka Estuary on the northwest coast of Madagascar is the mouth
of Madagascar's largest river. Nearly a century of logging of Madagascar's
rainforests and coastal mangroves has resulted in nearly complete
clearing of the land and erosion. |
 Hurricane
Catarina, Brazil -
Only two tropical cyclones had ever been noted in the South Atlantic
Basin, and no hurricanes. The crew of the International Space Station
acquired photos of a hurricane just as it made landfall on the southern
Brazilian state of Catarina. |
 Kerman
Desert, Iran - A
major dust storm rages in the Kerman Desert, just east of the city
of Bam in southeastern Iran. This image was acquired by the crew of
the International Space Station using a digital camera with a 50 mm
lens. |
 El
Paso, Texas - This
image of the El Paso-Juárez area is the 100,000th photograph of Earth
that astronauts have taken from the International Space Station. The
Rio Grande River forms the boundary between the cities of El Paso,
Texas and Juárez, Chihuahua. |
 Great
Salt Lake, Utah - Great
Salt Lake serves as a striking visual marker for astronauts orbiting
over North America. The eye-catching colors of the lake stem from
the fact that Great Salt Lake is hypersaline, typically 3-5 times
saltier than the ocean. |
 Pearl
and Hermes Reef, Hawaii - A
new technique developed by NOAA scientists has done just that -- plotted
the depths of lagoon features at Pearl and Hermes Reef, Hawaii, using
digital astronaut photography from the International Space Station. |
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