The men and women who live and work on the International Space Station take thousands of photographs of their home planet every year, and we asked the folks at the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for a few of their favorites from 2020. Here are the top 20 from ’20, and you can check out the images for yourself at the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth(https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/): Cuba and the Bahamas https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS062&roll=E&frame=117852 Cooper Creek, Australia https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS062&roll=E&frame=136862 Corsica in Sunglint https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS062&roll=E&frame=44814 Dust Over Cyprus https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=25816 Fall Colors Near Ottawa, Canada https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=107777 The Great Lakes https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS062&roll=E&frame=44966 Kerguelen Islands https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS061&roll=E&frame=120687 Wind Farms on Maui https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=40313 Moonrise over southern Atlantic Ocean https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=25498 Lakes and Fires, southern Kenya https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS061&roll=E&frame=21237 Sunrise over Great Australian Bight https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=61648 Paris at Night https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS064&roll=E&frame=6345 Flooding along the Nile in Sudan https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=76875 New Zealand https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=52878 Terminator over western Australia https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS064&roll=E&frame=5208 Airglow above western Indian Ocean https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=65148 Dust Plume over southern Argentina https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS062&roll=E&frame=85589 Reefs of Moindou Bay, New Caledonia https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=87740 Cloud Swirl above northern Sahara Desert https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS062&roll=E&frame=12938 Earth and Moon from Crew Dragon https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS063&roll=E&frame=68417
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