HD Earth Views from Space
NASA presents images of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. Traveling at an approximate speed of 17,500 miles per hour, the space station orbits Earth every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles, and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Its crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.
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Video of space shuttle over clouds from ISS.
The west coast of Madagascar.
The Gulf of Carpenteria on the north coast of Australia.
The Chilean coast. A dry lake in the Andes, with a volcano island in the middle, appears at 18 seconds.
The coast of Tunisia, in north Africa.
Clouds cover Mt. Etna on the island of Sicily, and the camera passes over the southern tip of Italy.
The dry desert coast of Namibia, in southwestern Africa.
The Chesapeake Bay, DelMarVa peninsula, and the Appalachian Mountains along the east coast of the U.S.
A pan along the southern tip of Florida, over the Florida Keys, and the edge of Cuba.
Coast of Kamchatka peninsula, off the far east coast of Russia.
Snow speckled Shandong peninsula on the east coast of China.
Footage of snow-covered mountains on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia.
Clouds over the Amazon,
From the Rio Grande to the Yucatan Peninsula.
The Ohio River and the Appalachian Mountains.
The Earth's limb with clouds.
The Great Salt Lake in Utah.
An African desert.
An impact crater.
The Earth's limb with a hurricane in view.
The Missouri River.
The Persian Gulf and the Zagros Mountains in Iran.
The moon about to set behind the Earth's limb.
Credits
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Producer
- Matthew R. Radcliff (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, May 4, 2011.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.