25th June, 2009

Powerful images taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station along with some captured by satellites show the earth from an unusual perspective...

          View of the Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) taken from the International Space

      Station in an early stage of eruption on 12th June, 2009. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis

      Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov

      View of Lake Eyre, in Australia, filling captured by Landsat satellite on 10th June. Image courtesy of the

      Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov

      Saint Helena Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space  

      Station on May 7th, 2009 . Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.  

      Astronaut photograph ISS019-E-14918. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov

     The island of Fogo in the Cape Verde Islands captured by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s

     EO-1 satellite on 10th June, 2009. Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson

     Space Center. Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048 http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov