To infinity and beyond!
Ever wondered what your country looks like from space? For those of us who can’t handle the whole throwing up and no gravity thing, astronaut Tim Peake has saved us from all the horrors of an interstellar trip with these absolutely stunning pictures of Earth taken from way above.
Peake posted all these fantastic images to his Flickr account during his six-month mission up in the International Space Station with the European Space Agency back in 2016. The mind-blowing images shows several world capitals, iconic landmarks and natural wonders in all their earthy glory.
Take a look at some of the best below and see if you can spot where you live.
Here’s Delhi and the Himalayas…
Here’s London, Paris and Berlin shining bright, along with the rest of Western Europe (if you look really close, you can see the northern lights, too!)…
Here’s Italy’s fabulous boot…
That’s the UK looking all pretty…
And New York City looking all massive…
Here’s Greece and all its beautiful islands…
And who can forget the luxury powerhouse that is Dubai…
Here’s what Kyrgyzstan looks like at night…
Here’s just how gargantuan South Africa looks from Space…
Argentina’s Patagonia is just breathtaking…
Here’s an epic snapshot of the Sahara…
Here are all the bright lights of Tripoli shining bright like a diamond…
Here’s what San Francisco looks like from the International Space Station…
Here’s a cloudy snap of Rio De Janeiro…
And São Paulo too…
Here’s a very frozen Hudson Bay in Canada…
This shot proves Russia’s northeastern coast is MASSIVE…
Here’s what millions of tiny fishing boats look like passing through the South China Sea…
Here’s Denmark, Norway and Sweden…
Here’s an epic shot of the UK and Ireland…
Here’s a stellar pic of London…
In fact, Tim Peake’s snap of London is so peak, here it is again, zoomed in…
Ever wondered what Moscow looks like from space? Here you go…
Here’s the very bright lights of Cairo…
And Japan…
BONUS: Here’s what the Northern Lights look from space…
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