Virunga Mountains
Other than NASA, the European Space Agency is a good source for photos taken of, or from space.
Their ‘Observing The Earth’ archive is a treasure trove of breath-taking photographs of Earth taken from space. Each photograph is accompanied by a short write-up detailing each location or phenomena.
The incredible photographs resemble works of abstract art. Scroll down to view some of them.
Raystown Lake in the US state of Pennsylvania
The sand seas of the Namib Desert
Rolling hills of farmland in the northwest United States
The French island of Corsica
The island of Elba off Italy’s north-western coast
The Tibesti Mountains
The Black Earth Region in western Russia
The curving sands in central northern Iran’s salt desert, Dasht-e Kavir
[via Colossal, images via ESA]