Impressive photos of Earth seen from above

Egmont National Park in New Zealand with the summit of Mount Taranaki in the center, as seen from an image recorded by the Landsat 8 satellite.

Islets and tidal creeks divide them in the Bahamas in this photo taken from the International Space Station.

A boat nears the edge of shallow water in a canyon at Lake Powell near Page, Arizona. This lake, located on the Colorado River, supplies water to the states of Nevada, Arizona and California.

The Ipe tree in this photo is viewed from above in the Amazon forest near Novo Progresso city, Para state, Brazil.

Aerial view of the Iguazu Falls in the province of Misiones in northwestern Argentina.

Impressive aerial shot of the Nad Al Sheba desert in Dubai.

An aerial view of the Sargassum seaweed cluster off the coast of Cancun, Mexico.

An aerial view shows rivers drying up in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Pilbara region, about the size of Spain, is home to the world’s largest iron ore deposits and supplies nearly 45 percent of the global trade in this mineral.

In late summer, plankton grows throughout Lake Ontario. Blue-green algae can congregate in large numbers and discolor water on a scale we can observe from orbit. This photo was taken from the International Space Station.

An iceberg in a fjord in the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland. The collapse of glaciers has shown the impact of climate change.

The polluted Gange river in Kanpur, India, seen from above.

Snow-capped Mount Fuji in Japan taken from an airplane.

This image was taken from the International Space Station (ISS) with a large amount of ash covered in space after a series of eruptions at Raikoke Volcano in the North Pacific Ocean.

Fog covers a picturesque road in Kvaerndrup, located on the island of Funen in Denmark.

Lava flows from fissures in Fagradalsfjall, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland.

Clouds twist in the shape of a heart as the wind blows over the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean.

A heart-shaped lake surrounded by trees in Balashikha, Moscow region, Russia.

According to Kieu Anh