Images taken by orbitting satellites show geographical features in unexpected ways. Some can be downloaded as screensavers.

A real-time satellite view, where the visible-light image is updated every 3 hours.

A collection of photographs taken from various spacecraft, as well as captions, and quotations from the astronauts.

Pictures taken from satellites of the Goddard Space Flight Center show hurricanes, fires and melting icecaps. Arranged in date order.

A photograph made from several views of the whole world, showing city lights and areas of greater population. From NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day series.

A NASA sponsored program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Since 1996, EarthKAM students have taken thousands of photographs of Earth by using the world wide web to direct a digital camera on select space flights.

Global composite of geostationary satellite weather images. You may interactively zoom and animate the pictures.

Features the latest news on missions and satellites of the European Space Agency, with images and animations from previous journeys.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center official site with information about the project, satellite specifications, list of data receivers, educational resources, and color images.

This site provides the most complete access to all astronaut photographs of Earth taken from 1961 to the present. Over 420,000 records give the locations and background data on each image with digital browse images when available. This is the site that NASA uses for its own search needs and is maintained at NASA Johnson Space Center.

Features realistic earth views rendered with POV-Ray using free satellite data.

A searchable collection of NASA photographs and animations, grouped according to location, land use and environmental issues.