iss071e003218 (April 9, 2024) --- Khabarovsk, Russia, on the bank of the Amur River and about 17 miles east of the border with China, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above.

iss069e030924 (July 11, 2023) -- Clouds are painted pink and white at orbital sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above the coast of Guatemala. The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft docked to the station's Prichal module can be seen to the right of the image.

iss067e000260 (March 30, 2022) --- The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship, carrying three Expedition 66 crew members, departs the International Space Station after undocking from the Rassvet module. The Soyuz crew ship would parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan about four hours later with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov.

iss069e020459 (June 13, 2023) --- The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, science investigation payload is pictured attached to the outside of the International Space Station. NICER studies the extraordinary physics of neutron stars providing new insights into their nature and behavior potentially revolutionizing the understanding of ultra-dense matter. Filling the background are the station's solar arrays that power the orbiting lab.

iss069e025331 (June 24, 2023) -- Clouds cover the Island of Hawaii, the youngest and largest of eight islands in the chain, as the International Space Station orbited 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

iss069e005463 (April 26, 2023) --- The Sun's glint breams across the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk, with the southern portion of the Kamchatka Peninsula in between, in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above.

iss067e003783 (April 6, 2022) --- The Namib Desert is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of the African nation of Namibia.

iss069e022551 (June 16, 2023) --- A portion of The Bahamas, in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Florida, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above.

iss069e028451 (July 3, 2023) -- Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island and one of 20 regions of Italy, is photographed from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above.

iss067e000259 (March 30, 2022) --- The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship, carrying three Expedition 66 crew members, departs the International Space Station after undocking from the Rassvet module. The Soyuz crew ship would parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan just over four hours later with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov.

iss067e000261 (March 30, 2022) --- The Soyuz MS-19 crew ship, carrying three Expedition 66 crew members, backs away from the International Space Station after undocking from the Rassvet module. The Soyuz crew ship would parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan just over four hours later with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov. At left, is one of two cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays attached to Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter.