10 of the Best Images of Earth NASA Shared This Month

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station regularly take photos of our planet. Image: NASA NASA Earth Observatory has been cataloging images of our planet since 1999, bringing us coverage of all the cool and weird geology Earth has to offer. The Observatory publishes images taken by different satellites or by astronauts aboard the International Space gaming Station depicting Earth’s geography, environment, and geology. You can see ice sheets melting, wildfires burning, clouds floating, waves churning, as well as humans impacting the planet. While NASA’s Earth Observatory has a ton of photos, it features one special image every day from its archives, and here’s our roundup of some of the coolest photos they featured in May.