A ship plies the waves in the Bay of Biscay.

A port near Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Ice floes clumping in Russia's Sea of Okhotsk

The Seine River, near Rouen, France.

The limb of the Earth, seen from the ISS when it was high above Arkansas on May 21,2009.

Tidal channels near Iran's Qeshm Island.

Beaches and farrmland north of Douarnenez, France.

Svyatoy Point in Russia's Lake Baikal.

Charles De Gaulle Airport, in the suburbs of Paris, France.

Part of the Amistad Reservoir on the Rio Grande in Texas.

Ullung Island, off the coast of South Korea.

A strange circular area of thinned ice in the southern end of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. While the origin of the circles is still unknown, the peculiar pattern suggests convection (upwelling) in the lake's water column

The Chicago shorleine along Lake Michigan.

Japan's Mount Fuji.

Lava flows along Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano (356 km)

Ships enter part of the Suez Canal in Egypt.

High above the Indian Ocean, astronauts captured these four images (animated here) of the Aurora Australis and surrounding airglow in the Earth's atmosphere as the ISS orbits quickly past.
