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)