This Is How the World Might Look From an Astronaut's Perspective

Inspired by the view that astronauts have when given the opportunity to peer down at Earth, The Daily Overview captures and shares satellite images of the world’s natural and manmade wonders. From New York to Sydney, these are 10 of the most striking images.
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    Bondi Beach, Sydney

    Bondi Beach is one of Sydney’s most popular tourist destinations, and gets its name from the Aboriginal word bondi, which means “waves breaking over rocks.”

  • Eixample, Barcelona

    The Eixample district of Barcelona is characterized by its strict grid pattern, octagonal intersections, and apartments with communal courtyards. Pictured here is the major square, Plaça de Tetuan.

  • TAPO Bus Station, Mexico City

    The Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente, better known as TAPO, is a major bus terminal in Mexico City. The dome-covered structure accommodates more than 10,000 passengers per day, traveling to 14 states throughout the country.

  • Bourtange, Netherlands

    Bourtange is a village in the Vlagtwedde area of Holland, with a population of 430. Its star fort was built in 1593 during the Eighty Years’ War when William I of Orange wanted to control the only road between Germany and the city of Groningen. Bourtange was restored to its mid-18th century state in 1960, and is currently used as an open-air museum.

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  • Port of Singapore

    Cargo ships and tankers—some weighing up to 300,000 tons—wait outside the entry to the Port of Singapore. The facility is the world’s second-busiest port in terms of total tonnage, shipping a fifth of the world’s cargo containers and half of the world’s annual supply of crude oil.

  • Mount Taranaki, New Zealand

    Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, is an active stratovolcano on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. A change in vegetation is sharply delineated between the national forest that encircles the volcano, and the surrounding land comprised of intensively farmed dairy pastures.

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  • Pivot Irrigation Fields, Kansas

    Pivot irrigation fields cover the landscape north of Copeland, Kansas. Powered by electric motors, lines of sprinklers rotate 360 degrees to evenly irrigate crops.

  • Central Park, New York

    New York City’s Central Park spans a whopping 843 acres—that’s 6 percent of the island of Manhattan.

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  • Port of Rotterdam

    The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is the largest port in Europe, with an annual cargo load of 441.5 million tons.

  • Norfolk Coal Train Depot, Virginia

    Train cars filled with coal are stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. Operated by the Norfolk Southern corporation, Lamberts Point Pier 6 is the largest coal-loading station in the Northern Hemisphere and serves as the temporary depot for the company’s fleet of 23,000 coal cars.