Earth from Orbit 2019: How NASA Satellites #PictureEarth

This Earth Day, NASA invites you to share how you #PictureEarth. For inspiration, NASA collected some of the best and most inconic satellite images and data visualizations capture over the last year. NASA's space-based view of our planet, and the way it's changing, helps humans understand Earth better.

Image Sources:

International Space Station: Clouds and Continents

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/



Earth Observing Fleet (June 2018)

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4662



A Clear Spring View of the Great Lakes

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144747/a-clear-spring-view-of-the-great-lakes



A Spacecraft’s Journey to the Space Station

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144408/a-spacecrafts-journey-to-the-space-station



Etna Awakens on its Side

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144493/etna-awakens-on-its-side



Urban Growth in Las Vegas

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30215



Pinwheel Squares in Bolivia

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144717/pinwheel-squares-in-bolivia



Aquaculture in China

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144624/seaweed-and-fish-world



Growth of Medina, Saudi Arabia

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144471/living-on-lava



Phytoplankton Bloom in the Baltic Sea

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144643/jupiter-or-earth



Typhoon Mangkhut

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92749/mangkhut-bearing-down-on-the-philippines



Hurricane Maria and Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4658



Damage to El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4621



Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2018

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4626



City Lights from the International Space Station

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92912/earth-awash-in-lights-of-the-night



Earth’s Magnetosphere

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4663



Ozonewatch 2018

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30985



Sea Ice Maximum Extent 2018

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4628



Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979 - 2018

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4686



Average Motion of Greenland Ice Sheet

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4688



Wide View of a Shrinking Glacier: Retreat at Pine Island

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/pine-island



Changes of the Padma River

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/PadmaRiver



Evolution of the Meteorological Observing System

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4654



Global Fire Weather Database

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4634



Tropical Storm Michael Drenches the Carolinas

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4692



GPM Captures Super Typhoon Mangkhut Approaching the Philippines

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4682



Ice Cube Cubesat Measures High Altitude Atmospheric Ice

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4636



Interface to Space: The Equatorial Fountain

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4617



Midsummer Sunrise, Gulf of Saint Lawrence

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92622/midsummer-sunrise-gulf-of-saint-lawrence



Love in the Air: Von Kármán Vortices

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144556/love-is-in-the-air



Cloudy Congo River Basin

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144608/cloudy-congo-river-basin



Europe at Night

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/NightLights



International Space Station: Canada at Night

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/