Australia from Space

Over the past 17 years, NASA has been capturing images of the Earth’s surface using Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard its Terra spacecraft. Now having explored 99 per cent of the planet’s surface, NASA has released three million photos of Earth – including this image of Gosse Bluff, located just over 200 kilometres west of Alice Springs. The photo was taken in October 2003. (Supplied: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team)