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iss073e0515603 (Aug. 24, 2025) --- Shanghai, China, situated on the Yangtze River where it meets the East China Sea,...
On August 9 at 03:00 UTC (Aug. 8 at 11 p.m. EDT) the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite passed over the...
This ASTER image shows a 60 km stretch of the Yangtze River in China, including the Xiling Gorge, the eastern of the...
The largest city wall in the world is in Nanjing, China. It was built between 1366 and 1386 by the Ming Dynasty...
iss072e445027 (Dec. 28, 2024) --- The city lights of Harbin, the capital of China's northernmost province of...
STS-56 Earth observation shows of some of the highest mountain peaks in the world taken from Discovery, Orbiter...
This image of the Shandong Province, China was acquired by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer instrument...
In 1979, China established two special economic zones around the Pearl River Delta, north of Hong Kong. This image,...
iss073e0513927 (Aug. 22, 2025) --- Shanghai, China's most populous city with over 24 million citizens and sitting on...
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is a radio telescope in China's Guizhou Province. When it...
iss074e0044341 (Jan. 3, 2026) --- Changchun, China—whose name translates to “Long Spring” for its pleasant spring...
iss071e439834 (Aug. 8, 2024) --- The Yangtze River beams in the Sun's glint as wildfires burn in the surrounding...
These images show dramatic change in the water at Dongting Lake in Hunan province, China. A flood crest surged down...
Suzhou is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about 100 km northwest of Shanghai....
This spaceborne radar image shows part of the British territory of Hong Kong, adjacent to mainland China. The South...
iss072e397138 (Dec. 19, 2024) --- The Himalayas separate the arid steppe of China's Tibetan Plateau from a cloudy...
iss072e363445 (Dec. 13, 2024) --- An icy lake in southwestern China's high plateau region north of the Himalayas is...
iss072e363454 (Dec. 13, 2024) --- An icy lake in southwestern China's high plateau region north of the Himalayas is...
iss072e444944 (Dec. 28, 2024) --- Beijing, China's capital city with a population of about 21.9 million residents,...
iss074e0000788 (Dec. 13, 2025) --- The county-level city of Erenhot in China's autonomous region of Inner Mongolia...
The mighty river featured in this image is called the Yarlung Tsangpo in China, and is then known as the Dikrong...
iss073e0688699 (Aug. 26, 2025) --- The blue-green lights of fishing boats, designed to lure squid, sardines, or...
iss073e0134286 (June 2, 2025) --- The north central Vietnamese coast on the South China Sea, in between the cities...
iss074e0089785 (Jan. 25, 2026) --- The International Space Station orbits into a sunset 260 miles above China near...