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| A phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands. |
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| The landscape of the Tanezrouft Basin, one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara desert, in south-central Algeria. |
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| The southern Atacama Desert, with the border of Chile (west) and Argentina (east) running down the middle. |
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| Beijing |
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| Clearwater Lakes, located to the east of the Hudson Bay |
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| The northern part of the country of Namibia |
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| Lake Powell |
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| Mississippi River delta: land vegetation appears pink, while the sediment in the surrounding waters are bright blue and green |
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| The sand seas of the Namib Desert |
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| The Paraná River cuts through this image of southern Brazil |
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| The northern end of the Persian Gulf, along with the border of Iran and Iraq and the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab river |
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| Sand and dust blowing northeast from the Arabian Peninsula across the Persian Gulf toward Iran |
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| The foothills of the Andes mountains near the southern coast of Peru |
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| The icy waters of the Baltic Sea surrounding Germany’s largest island, Rügen |
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| Sand and dust from the Sahara Desert blowing across the Atlantic Ocean along the coasts of Mauritania (top), Senegal (middle) and Guinea Bissau (bottom) |
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| North central Siberia |
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| Three of the five Great Lakes of North America. Lakes Huron (left) and Erie (bottom) are partially ice-covered |
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| Rolling hills of farmland in part of the Palouse Region in the northwest United States |
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| Running across the image, the Okavango River forms the border between Namibia to the south and Angola |
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| The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images |