Images of Earth to celebrate Earth Day
For this Earth Day 2022, enjoy a photo gallery of Earth images – taken through the years by members of the EarthSky community – capturing the beauty and grandeur of the planet we call home.
The Milky Way and desert landscape in this photo from Volcano Peak in the Silver Island Mountains, Utah, have a golden glow. This 2022 image is via Marc Toso .
Harry Haldeman in Lake Wanaka, New Zealand, shared this photo of his hike to Roys Peak in 2022.
Stephanie Becker in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, took this image of a house finch and spring blooms in 2022.
Sheryl Garrison captured an image of this bear in 2021, at Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada.
View larger at EarthSky Community Photos . | Mullinger Swamp, South Australia via John Carter in 2019.
For a couple of weeks during the year – if the western horizon stays clear – the last few minutes of daylight fall perfectly on Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Falls, making it glow as if on fire. Photographers call it the firefall . @MikeMezPhoto at Instagram shared this photo with the EarthSky community in 2019.
Northern lights in Alaska in 2017 by Manish Mamtani Photography.
The moon and Venus in 2018, over the UK’s Isle of Wight, via Ainsley Bennett Photography .
Photographer Tom Wildoner wrote in 2017, “This is an area inside Lehigh Gorge State Park, Pennsylvania, that I have named ‘Mossy Glen’. A wonderful secluded spot with moss-covered rocks as far as you can see, gentle running water always running around and over them.”
Big Creek Greenway, Cumming, Georgia. 2017 photo via Jessica Schilke.
Sharr Mountains National park, Kosovo. Photo shared in 2014 by Yzer Berisha.
Shared via our friend Neha Golwala in India, in 2013, who wrote, “Earth laughs in flowers.”
Pearls of water on grass, in the morning, as captured by VegaStar Carpentier in 2013.
Cherry trees blooming in Antelope Valley, California, by Kerri Willerford.
A bluebell woodland in Blairgowrie, Scotland. Photo by Alison Moodie. She writes, “It is silent and the air is full of the perfume of a million wild bluebells.”
A common leopard butterfly enjoys the nectar of a marigold in Pune, India. Image via Lakshmi Ravishankar .
Eliot Herman shared this image of rain glowing red from the sunset in Tucson, Arizona.
Yuri Beletsky captured this lenticular cloud on a mid-December night in the Chilean Andes Mountains.
Sunrays stream through the trees in Lower Saxony, Germany. Image via Wolfram Garten .
Starry skies and lightning strikes over Central Valley, California. Composite image by Scott Toste.
This seastack – “Dun Briste” (pronounced-doon brishtha) – lies off the North Mayo coast at Ballycastle, Ireland. Image via Noel Kelly .
Happy Earth Day from Karthik Easvur. Valley in Mahabaleshwar Hill Station in India.
Kristal Alaimo-Moritz Klear wrote, “Even the small things matter. San Simeon, California.”
Lynton Brown of Australia captured this fogbow over a barren field.
Fall colors by Rasmi Syamalan .
Fetch! Seaside, Oregon, at sunset. Image via Dawn Gimbel-Myers.
Bottom line: Enjoy this collection of some of our best images of Earth. Thanks to all who contributed, and have a Happy Earth Day!
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