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26 Jaw-Dropping Images Of Our Planet By NASA

3. Eastern Seaboard at Night

26 Jaw-Dropping Images Of Our Planet By NASA

An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Large metropolitan areas and other easily recognizable sites from the Virginia/Maryland/Washington, D.C. area are visible in the image that spans almost to Rhode Island. Boston is just out of frame at right. Long Island and the New York City area are visible in the lower right quadrant. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are near the center. Parts of two Russian vehicles parked at the orbital outpost are seen in left foreground.

4. Alaska?s Brooks Range

26 Jaw-Dropping Images Of Our Planet By NASA

Mountains in Alaska?s Brooks Range seen during the IceBridge survey flight from Thule, Greenland to Fairbanks, Alaska.

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