Reading the ABCs from Space
An astronaut captured this photograph of Utah’s Green River.
Arkansas River and the Holla Bend Wildlife Refuge. In the winter, it is common for the refuge to host 100,000 ducks and geese at once.
An astronaut captured this photograph of an artificial island at the southern end of Bahrain Island.
Akimiski Island in James Bay.
A phytoplankton bloom off the coast of New Zealand.
False-color image of valleys and snowcovered mountain ranges in southeastern Tibet.
Pinaki Island was captured by astronauts on the International Space Station.
Rivers running through colorful ridges in southwestern Kyrgyzstan.
The Andaman Islands. The thin, bright rings surrounding several of the islands are coral reefs that were lifted up by a massive earthquake near Sumatra in 2004.
The Trunk Reef near Townsville, Australia.
Glaciers at the Sirmilik National Park Pond Inlet in Mittimatalik, Canada.
Snow across the northeastern United States.
The Tian Shan mountains in northeastern Kyrgyzstan.
Ship tracks over the Pacific. Ship emissions contain small particles that cause the clouds to form.
Tenoumer meteorite crater in Mauritania. The meteorite struck Earth between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago.
False-color image of the Mackenzie River Delta in Canada.
Lonar Crater in India formed by a large meteorite.
Lago Menendez in Argentina.
Clouds swirling over the Atlantic Ocean
Two roads in the United Arab Emirates.
Gooseneck State Park in Utah, USA.
Ash on the snow around Shiveluch— one of the largest and most active volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
Dust blowing over the Red Sea.
False color image of the northwest corner of Leidy Glacier in Greenland.
False-color image of the Ugab River in Namibia.
Wildfire smoke over Canada.