40 Mesmerizing Images Captured By NASA In 2020 That Will Transport You To A Whole Other World

Space is something that excites and bewilders us all, but it’s fair to say that NASA astronauts have a much more vivid experience of it than most. Luckily for the rest of us, though, these people sometimes snap photos during their space-exploring exploits. Throughout 2020 alone, some incredible photos were taken, with some depicting rocket launches and others showing us the melting ice caps from space. Here, we take a look at 40 of the best.

40. Nighttime in Paris

Paris: the city of love. Year on year the place welcomes countless loved-up couples on romantic breaks. And judging by this NASA picture from space, it looks just as wondrous from up above. Just look at the bright lights at the snaking bend of the River Seine that runs through the city. C’est magnifique!

39. Above the Caribbean

As beautiful as the Caribbean is, we reckon it’s never looked as alluring as it does from this 2020 image from outer space. The pic was snapped by someone on the International Space Station, taken from a specific part of the base known as the Cupola. Note how much lighter the water of the Bahamas is compared to the darker open oceans.

38. Cloudy desert

From an astonishing 259 miles up in the sky, this stunning photograph was snapped on February 13, 2020. It shows a mass of white and slightly menacing clouds whirling above the northern part of the Sahara Desert. It sure looks beautiful from above, but you probably wouldn’t want to be caught up in it.

37. Heading home

This photo’s a real window into the extraordinary life of an astronaut – and it happens to show an actual window on the SpaceX Crew’s Dragon vehicle. Yes, the pic was snapped as the astronaut headed back to Earth after saying goodbye to the ISS. They’d just finished up with the SpaceX Demo-2 mission, which incidentally was the first operation to fire humans to space from America in almost a decade. The land visible out the window, though, is eastern Kazakhstan.