Fabulous Pictures of Our Earth Taken by the Astronaut


Dutch astronaut and physician Andre Kuipers, who’s currently working at the International Space station, took these marvelous pictures with his SLR. Good photographic skills and perfect vantage point enabled the man to make the images so stunning that some of them seem absolutely unreal.


The Richat Structure in Mauritania


Paris at night


From space I wish you all a very exciting and colorful year!


Veins' in the Somalian desert


Over the Tibetan plateau with the Himilayas, Butan and Napal in the background


Denmark with Copenhagen, Norway with Oslo, Sweden with Stockholm in the distance, northern Germany and beyond


Beautiful reflection of the Sun in a Brazilian river


On their way to America


Over the Southern Lights between Antarctic and Australia


Sahara sand treks hundreds of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean


Sea ice spirals near Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia


The different layers of the atmosphere can be seen during sunrise and sunset


Detail strong winds at White Sands


Sunlight reflects in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas. Corsica, Sardinia and northern Italy


Sahara sand pattern




Snowy Canada. River or a millipede?


Wave pattern in the Indian Ocean


Lake Powell and Colorado River. Awesome place. Green warm water, white/red rocks, blue sky. And nobody around


Meteor crater in Canada


The Alps look very tempting


The moon looks the same from the ISS as it does on Earth. Only we see it rise and set again and again.


Salt Lake City


The Earth by night


ISS Commander Dan Burbank @astrocoastie has an eye for beautiful cloud formations


Aircraft make patterns in the sky


How we see the moon. Sharp and slowly moving towards or away from the horizon


The Pacific is a great source of colourful images. One of the Gilbert Islands


Africa meets Europe - Strait of Gibraltar


Foam clouds


For an experiment I had to be quiet for 10 min, so I looked out the window. And saw an active Etna!


Australia is an extraordinary continent with beautiful structures


Comet Lovejoy by Cdr Dan Burbank @astrocoastie, on launch day. One of the first who spotted it


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