2015: NASA's top 15 Earth images of the year
Scientists aboard the International Space Station clicked some awesome pictures this year that included some incredible pictures of Planet Earth. Recently, NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s Earth observations team prepared a list of the best images of- India-Pakistan Border at Night | Expedition 45: 23 September 2015 | Nighttime panorama looking north across Pakistan’s Indus River valley (Courtesy: NASA)
- Aquaculture, northeast China | Expedition 44: 6 September 2015 | A grid pattern of fish farms on the coast of China’s northeast province of Liaoning (Courtesy: NASA)
- Red Sprites, northwest Mexico | Expedition 44: 10 August 2015 | A red sprite above the white light of an active thunderstorm (Courtesy: NASA)
- Flooding on the Mekong River floodplain, Thailand and Laos | Expedition 44: 8 August 2015 | The Mekong River on the border between Thailand and Laos (Courtesy: NASA)
- The Port of Sfax, Tunisia | Expedition 44: 19 June 2015 | The radiating street pattern of Tunisia’s second city and major port of Sfax (population ~900,000), which also hosts Tunisia’s largest fishing fleet (Courtesy: NASA)
- Shaping Cape Cod, Massachusetts | Expedition 44: 13 June 2015 | The northern tip of Cape Cod—showing 8.5 miles (14 km) of its 65-mile (105 km) length (Courtesy: NASA)
- Salt Ponds, Western Australia | Expedition 44: 11 June 2015 | Coastal lagoons with numerous rounded islands are typical of the Indian Ocean coastline of Western Australia (Courtesy:NASA)
- Adele Island, northwest Australia | Expedition 44: 11 June 2015 | A tiny island with many concentric zones around it, Adele Island, off Australia’s north coast (Courtesy: NASA)
- Laguna Colorada, Bolivia | Expedition 43: 16 April, 2015 | The brightly colored Laguna Colorada, unique in this part of the Bolivian Andes Mountains (Courtesy: NASA)
- Rivers and Snow in the Himalayas, China and India | Expedition 43: 8 April, 2015 | The Himalaya range, near the China–India border where peaks cast strong evening shadows on the snow (Courtesy: NASA)
- Good Air and Brown Water, Argentina | Expedition 43: 6 April, 2015 | The eye-catching delta and green swamps of the Paraná River (image left) on the Atlantic coast of Argentina (Courtesy: NASA)
- Scandinavia at Night | Expedition 43: 3 April, 2015 | Southern Scandinavia just before midnight under a full moon (Courtesy: NASA)
- Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northern Columbia | Expedition 42: 27 February, 2015 | A dramatic view of the many peaks of Colombia’s Santa Marta massif (Courtesy: NASA)
- Volcanoes, Vog, and Vortices, Hawaii | Expedition 42: 8 February, 2015 | Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano (image left) with the long swirls of volcanic gases (top half of the image) wafting west from the volcano (Courtesy: NASA)
- Lake Chad and a Bodele Dust Plume, Sahara | Expedition 42: 02 February, 2015 | The arid landscapes of the Sahara and the darker vegetation of the wetter, semi-arid woodland known as the Sahel (Courtesy: NASA)
Scientists aboard the International Space Station clicked some awesome pictures this year that included some incredible pictures of Planet Earth. Recently, NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s Earth observations team prepared a list of the best images of
2015: NASA's top 15 Earth images of the year
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