Earth from above

Little island cays and the noticeable tidal diverts cutting between them in the Bahamas in a photograph taken on board the International Space Station. REUTERS/NASA

Egmont National Park in New Zealand with Mt. Taranaki at its center is found in a Landsat 8 satellite picture. REUTERS/NASA/USGS

A houseboat camps on the shore in shallow water in a gulch at Lake Powell near Page, Arizona. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

An ipe (lapacho) tree is found in this elevated perspective of the Amazon rainforest near to the city of Novo Progresso, Para State, Brazil. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

The huge island of Hawaii in a picture consumed by European Room Agency space traveler Samantha Cristoforetti from the International Space Station. REUTERS/NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti

An aeronautical perspective of the Iguazu Falls is found in the Argentinian northwest region of Misiones. REUTERS/Raul Puentes

An elevated perspective of an open burial ground in Hangzhou, Zhejiang area, China. REUTERS/Stringer

Late summer plankton blooms across much of Lake Ontario. REUTERS/NASA

A general perspective of dried-up rivers in the Pilbara area of Western Australia. REUTERS/David Gray

The Nile and the Sinai Peninsula in a photograph taken by Col. Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, who is photographing Earth from the International Space Station, March 2013. REUTERS/CSA/Col. Chris Hadfield

A flying perspective demonstrates the discretionary territory of Doha, Qatar. REUTERS/Fadi Al-Assaad

Oil goes into a tailings lake at the Suncor tar sands operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta. REUTERS/Todd Korol

A satellite picture demonstrates Arctic summer ocean ice in September 2007. REUTERS/NASA

The town of Susuz is seen on the northern shore of the Ataturk dam through the window of a traveler airplane flying over south-eastern Turkey area of Adiyaman. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

A general perspective of a road by sand hills covered in vegetation in the Pilbara area of Western Australia. REUTERS/David Gray

Algal blossomsvisible as swirls of green are found in Lake St. Clair, on the fringe of Michigan and Ontario, Canada. REUTERS/NASA

Layers of Earth's environment, splendidly hued as the sun sets, are included in a photograph taken by a STS-127 team part on the Space Shuttle Endeavor, July 2009. REUTERS/NASA

A houseboat camps on the shore in shallow water in a canyon at Lake Powell near Page, Arizona. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Japan's Mount Fuji is seen covered with snow. REUTERS/Issei Kato