1||In honor of Earth Day, NASA has compiled some of their most beautiful and captivating images of the third planet from the sun. Here, looking down at northwestern Africa from an off-centered vantage point, the Earth’s curvature is clearly shown, a rarity for ISS imaging which usually takes photos “nadir” meaning centered directly below the lens. This profile view also captures the hazy protective cocktail of nitrogen and oxygen, which make up Earth’s atmosphere. ||NASA/JPL/UCSD/JSC&&
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