newyorker: Click-through for a look back at 20 of the most...

The United States at night. This image is a composite assembled from data acquired in April and October, 2012, by the Suomi NPP satellite, which can observe dim signals such as city lights...


Alaid Volcano, the Kuril Islands. Rising three thousand metres from the floor of the Sea of Okhotsk, between Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Alaid is 1 of many active volcanos along Kuril chain


The Great Pyramids at Giza. This July 25, 2012, photograph of Giza, Egypt, illustrates the degree of detail visible from the International Space Station using a long focal-length lens.


Hurricane Sandy. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13 captured this image of the superstorm at 1:45 P.M. E.T. on October 28, 2012.

newyorker:

 Click-through for a look back at 20 of the most striking images of our home planet as seen from orbit in 2012: http://nyr.kr/UosuxW, images courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory,