NASA Celebrates Earth Day With These 21 Breathtaking Visuals From Space

NASA is celebrating the spirit of Earth Day with its #NoPlaceLikeHome project. The space agency has put up these stunning 21 space visuals on their website and has also invited instagrammers to send them their entries with the hashtag.

Check out these stunning visuals:

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Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti photographed the Gulf of Aden and Horn of Africa from the International Space Station.

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North-looking panorama that includes parts of Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida, and even runs into several other areas in the southeastern U.S..

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European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this photograph of the island of Hawaii.

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This nighttime image showing city lights in at least half a dozen southern states of US from some 225 miles above the home planet.

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From the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore took this photograph of the Great Lakes and central US.

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A composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft.

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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station.

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European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst posted this photograph taken from the International Space Station.

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From the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photograph over Australia.

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Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency posted this photograph of windswept valleys in Northern Africa, taken from the International Space Station.

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One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station recorded this early evening photo of the entire Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image of sea ice off the coast of East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast.

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NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman shared this image of Yellowstone National Park.

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Ice, wind, cold temperatures and ocean waters combined to created dramatic cloud formations over the Bering Sea.

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Located in the Brabazon Range of southeastern Alaska, Yakutat Glacier is one of the fastest retreating glaciers in the world.

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Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry Virts marked the 100th anniversary of the Rocky Mountain National Park with this photograph taken from the International Space Station.

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Located in the northwest corner of Greenland, Leidy Glacier is fed by ice from the Academy Glacier.

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The northeastern United States following intense winter weather in New England and the surrounding area.

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The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this view of a phytoplankton bloom near Alaska’s Pribilof Islands. 

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NASA's Terra satellite captured the March 20, 2015 solar eclipse's shadow over clouds in the Arctic Ocean.

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New land is forming at the mouths of the Wax Lake Outlet and the Atchafalaya River