The wonders of Earth newly captured from space ...including the lush green Amazon basin and an ‘angry meeting of air and water on Chilean coast’
From the Amazon's twirling golden basin to the ancient streets of Paraguay, such Earthly wonders are newly seen today but in a different perspective: approximately 220 miles away.
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who's currently orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station, has been documenting his remarkable views outside his window almost daily online.
Captioning with one photo overlooking South America on Wednesday Mr Hadfield introduces, 'the incredibly green lush wetness of the Amazon basin,' that shows brightly contrasting colors of swirling gold and green.
Amazon: Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield has captured this remarkable image over South America, showing as he calls it, The incredibly green lush wetness of the Amazon basin
Chile: As seen from Mr Hadfield's window, there's, as he calls it, an angry meeting of air and water on the Chilean coast
In another photo he shows what he calls 'an angry meeting of air and water on the Chilean coast.'
There, billowing white clouds are seen circling over deep blue water just on the edge of a dry red coast, easily showing the dramatic differences in condensation between land and sea.
In yet another intricate photo the flight engineer shows exactly how, as he later captions it, 'the startling verdant green of this swamp in Paraguay caught my eye from my perch a million feet up.'
In the photo, Paraguya’s fine street patterns are visible from space, with tiny scratches of brown seen bundled across the earth's ordinarily dark green surface of trees.
African mystery: Dubbed 'tonight's finale,' the astronaut writes with this intriguing photo that whatever the African farmers are doing here, he appreciates the view
African eye-spy: Mr Hardfield notes seeing a chameleon 'that has taken on the colours of sub-Saharan Africa'
South America: A swamp in Paraguay is seen from as he describes it one million feet up
Asuncion: Paraguay's ancient city, nearly 500 years old, is seen from his window while noting 'the ancient street patterns [being] visible from space'
A light brown river borders the city, separating it from a marbling mess of green beautifully stretching off the frame.
The 53-year-old future commander of Expedition 35, the next one to come, first arrived on the ISS on December 21 and visibly hasn't wasted a minute in enjoying his larger-than-life opportunities.
But what's to come next could be anyone's guess with the ISS said to take just 92 minutes to completely orbit the Earth.
United States: Earlier in the week he tweeted this photo of where the Mississippi enters the Gulf of Mexico, writing 'the soil of America's heartland forming a vast, deep delta'
More than 200 miles high: The astronaut published this photo of two magnificently contrasting gold and silver landscapes, separated by a jagged river of water
Snaking through South America is this creamy turquoise river photographed by the passing astronaut
Describing this image as a two-dimensional fountain, a river is seen carrying silt and soil out into the sea
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