From Gijón to Bilbao, this shot shows the Bay of Biscay with snow lacing the Cantabrian mountain range. It’s one of the most recent pictures of Spain captured by astronauts on the ISS. It was uploaded to Twitter on January 20 by current space station crew member Sam Cristoforetti.ISSOn July 15, 2009, the 20th ISS expedition took this spectacular image of the 3,718-meter Teide volcano on Tenerife. The photograph also shows the Pico Viejo volcano, which rises 3,135 meters above sea level.ISSThe 20,000 hectares of plastic greenhouses in Almería province's Campo de Dalías, as viewed from the ISS on February 7, 2004. The fruit and vegetables that grow here are a €1.3-billion business.ISSThe Ebro estuary in Catalonia viewed from the orbiting station on June 3, 2004. The image allows you to make out the divide between fresh and salt water. Around 300 bird species live in the 320 square kilometers that make up one of the largest wetlands in the Mediterranean region.ISSThe Eixample, Ciutat Vella and Montjuïc districts all show up in this daytime photo looking over Barcelona, taken from the ISS on December 30, 2006.ISSA view of Granada’s Sierra Nevada captured on November 12, 2011. The mountain chain was created during the Alpine orogeny, a mountain-forming period that also gave rise to the Alps, and the Atlas mountains in northern Africa.ISSA Nikon D2Xs captured this shot of the Balearic islands of Mallorca and Cabrera on December 31, 2011. The photograph was taken by the 30th expedition.ISSThis is how the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta, on the African side of the 13-kilometer Strait of Gibraltar that separates Spain from Morocco, looks from the ISS. The shot was captured by a Kodak 760C on July 21, 2007.ISSIt’s not that the Mediterranean has turned black: the dark area in the lower right-hand portion of this photograph of Ibiza is the shadow cast by thick clouds. It was taken from the ISS on March 22, 2013.ISS
