Editor’s note: I’ve added this to our "NASA Views Earth at Night" Flickr photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ Sicily is featured in this night time image captured by one of the Expedition 28 crew members aboard the International Space Station, approximately 220 miles above Earth. The land mass in upper right corner is part of the "toe" of [...]

Outflow obscures the definition of the eye and center of Tropical Cyclone Nargis, seen when the storm was at approximately 13.5 degrees north latitude and 86.2 degrees east longitude with maximum winds of 74.9 miles per hour. Photographed by a crew member aboard the International Space Station, the storm was moving east-northeast at 070 degrees [...]

Editor’s note: a nice shot from way back in the summer… This nadir view from the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, shows parts of two countries, including the Finger Lakes area of New York and part of two Great Lakes — Ontario and Erie and the Niagara River, which [...]

From approximately 220 miles above Earth, one of the Expedition 26 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this wintry picture of metropolitan New York City, which was bracing for its third heavy storm of the season. The crew member used a 70-mm focal length on a digital still camera to record the image. [...]

A very active Aurora Borealis was photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station flying approximately 240 miles above Manitoba, Canada on Jan. 25, 2012. Lake Winnipeg (lower right center) and the major city Winnipeg (bottom center) are easily recognizable in the nighttime scene. Image credit: NASA Original image: [...]

Egypt–Israel borderlands, northern Sinai Peninsula and northern Negev Desert are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 29 crew member on the International Space Station. A clearly visible line that marks approximately 50 kilometers of the international border between Egypt and Israel – 10-60 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea to the northwest (not shown) [...]