NASA recently improved the view from the space station, as displayed in this January 2011 photograph of That Choeng Shum, Thailand.
Published Mar 5, 2011
Astronauts observed the exhaust trails of the Cygnus resupply spacecraft and rocket.
Published Apr 11, 2016
Exhaust trails mark the flight of a Soyuz rocket that delivered crew members to the International Space Station.
Published Oct 26, 2012
This composite image was made from more than 400 photos taken as the International Space Station traveled from Namibia toward the Red Sea.
Published Oct 20, 2019
A NASA photographer captured the ISS as it passed directly between the Sun and Earth.
Published Jun 27, 2020
With sixteen sunrises and sunsets, astronauts have a lot of chances to see our nearest solar system neighbor.
Published Jun 23, 2019
For the first time in history, and the last time for a century, astronauts captured images of the planetary transit as viewed from orbit.
Published Jun 7, 2012
The Moon and the International Space Station appear as neighbors, though they are 384,400 kilometers miles apart.
Published Jan 16, 2012
A comet rises into view from the east around the December solstice.
Published Jan 1, 2012
A commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft has safely delivered two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
Published Jun 2, 2020
Different lens sizes and camera angles provide wildly different views of Madagascar.
Published Nov 17, 2019
The desert darkness contrasts starkly with the brightly lit street grid of Las Vegas in this photo from the International Space Station.
Published Dec 13, 2010
Astronauts and Santa Claus have a similar view of the planet.
Published Dec 24, 2011
Fires in the San Bernadino Mountains, driven by Santa Ana winds, burned out of control Sunday morning when these images were taken from the International Space Station (ISS) at roughly 11 a.m. PST. Thick yellow smoke blows south, blanketing the valley below. This photgraph, looking southeast, captures the smoke pall as the ISS approached and passed over the region. Lake Arrowhead is the reservoir near the left edge of the photograph.
Published Oct 27, 2003
Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have a unique view of the world because of their position in a low orbit (200 nautical miles, 360 kilometers) relative to satellites and their ability to look at any angle out the windows of the spacecraft. ISS crewmembers recently took advantage of their vantage point to photograph a series of oblique views of the Himalayas looking south from over the Tibetan Plateau. At first glance, one might think that the image looks like a picture taken from an airplane, until you remember that the summits of Makalu (left, 8,462 meters, or 27,765 feet) and Everest (right, 8,850 meters, or 29,035 feet) are at the heights typically flown by commercial aircraft. The full mosaic covers over 130 kilometers (80 miles) of the Himalayan front, and could never be seen this way from an airplane.
Published Mar 29, 2004
Lightning, airglow, and the Milky Way galaxy lit up the night sky as astronauts passed over Kiribati in the central Pacific.
Published May 16, 2016
Astronauts used the Electrical Still Camera (ESC) to photograph a mass of storm clouds during Expedition 1.
Published Dec 3, 2000
