Breathtaking photos from the International Space Station remind us of our common home

By Marcus Strom
Updated September 28 2016 - 11:08am, first published September 22 2016 - 1:22pm
The International Space Station camera captures a nighttime view of the Strait of Gibraltar with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft (left) and Progress spacecraft in the foreground. You can see the lights of Madrid and Barcelona bottom of frame with Rabat and Casablanca towards the top. Photo: ISS/NASA
The International Space Station camera captures a nighttime view of the Strait of Gibraltar with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft (left) and Progress spacecraft in the foreground. You can see the lights of Madrid and Barcelona bottom of frame with Rabat and Casablanca towards the top. Photo: ISS/NASA

During the 50 years we have been able take photos of Earth from space, we have become somewhat blase about the little blue planet on which we live.

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