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Incredible views of Earth from Outer Space

Looking down

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Views from the International Space Station and beyond have always provided such vast wonderment, complementing the imagination of the dream-like deep unknown with reflections of reality down below.

Take a look…

The morning sun reflects on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean

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(Photo by -/NASA/AFP via Getty Images)

The Lunar Module of the Apollo XI space mission on July 21, 1969

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Northeast Africa and Arabia

A view of the Puna de Atacama area of Argentina

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The famous "Boot of Italy" and the 2002 Mount Etna eruption in Sicily

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(Photo by NASA/Terra Satellite/Getty Images)

Western Europe and the Alps

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Mount Everest

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(Photo by Spaceimaging.com/Getty Images)

2022 Hurricane Bonnie in the Atlantic Ocean heading toward the eastern coast of the US.

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Great Barrier Reef

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The delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers with the Himalayan range

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Maldives

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Central China

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Bora Bora

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(Photo by Spaceimaging.com/Getty Images)

La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina Island on the Galapagos

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Southern tip of Africa

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San Joaquin Valley in California

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Photo by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC /Getty Images)

The Florida Keys

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The Nile River Delta

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The Parana and Uruguay rivers flowing south through Argentina

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Saudi Arabian Peninsula

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(Photo by NASA/MODIS/Getty Images)

Florida and the Keys down to the southern coast of Cuba, with the islands of the Bahamas

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Plankton bloom off the coast of Norway

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Great Wall of China

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Iceland

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Dominican Republic

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McMurdo sound in Antartica

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