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This region of central Asia is situated at the juncture of Mongolia, China and Russia. This image from NASA Terra...
iss073e0920829 (Oct. 20, 2025) --- This celestial view from a window aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft...
The ASTER instrument onboard NASA Terra spacecraft imaged the Khyber Pass, a mountain pass that links Afghanistan...
The 5000 meter 16,000 feet high Tibetan Plateau has been formed by the collision of the Indian subcontinent with...
This image shows locations in parts of North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia observed by NASA's...
iss066e089960 (Dec. 11, 2021) --- Kazakhstan's snowy, northeast border with Russia is pictured from the...
iss072e005520 (Sept. 29, 2024) -- One of the largest lakes in Central Asia, Lake Balkhash, was pictured from the...
Earth observation taken by an Expedition 36 crew member on board the International Space Station (ISS). Per Twitter...
iss067e302507 (Sept. 1, 2022) --- The Karakum Desert oasis in the Mary region of Turkmenistan is pictured from the...
iss067e212667 (July 31, 2022) --- The Uzbekistan cities of Urgench and Xonqa near the Amu Darya, a major river in...
iss070e042553 (Dec. 17, 2023) --- The Uly Balkan mountian range in Turkmenistan near the coast of the Caspian Sea is...
iss070e091704 (Feb. 10, 2024) --- A portion of the Pamir Mountains, a mountain range at the northwest junction of...
iss071e312274 (June 20, 2024) --- The Gökdepe köli fishing pond in the Ahal Region of Turkmenistan is pictured from...
ISS024-E-013421 (4 Sept. 2010) --- A setting last quarter crescent moon and the thin line of Earth’s atmosphere are...
iss062e081626 (March 4, 2020) --- The atmospheric glow floats above Earth's moonlit horizon beneath a starry sky as...
iss070e035253 (Dec. 4, 2023) --- The waning gibbous Moon is pictured just above Earth's horizon in this photograph...
iss071e695419 (Sept. 16, 2024) --- The city lights of central Asia and an aurora crowning Earth's horizon are...
iss071e092895 (May 20, 2024) --- Mud Volcano in Pakistan's western district of Chagai is pictured from the...
iss069e060329 (Aug. 15, 2023) --- Glaciers in the Pamir mountain range located in The Republic of Tajikistan are...
STS085-503-061 (7 - 19 August 1997) --- Lakes Balkhash and Alakol, southern uplands of Kazakhstan, central Asia. The...
This spaceborne radar image shows part of the remote central Asian region of Tuva, an autonomous republic of the...
iss074e0324639 (Feb. 22, 2026) --- An aurora streams above Earth’s atmospheric glow, blanketing the city lights of...
iss073e0134286 (June 2, 2025) --- The north central Vietnamese coast on the South China Sea, in between the cities...
iss074e0316083 (Feb. 18, 2026) --- The far western edge of the Taklamakan Desert—the world’s second-largest shifting...