It was a very sobering perspective to get how fragile, unique, and sacred our spaceship Earth is, and the responsibility we have to be good shepherds of her.
David Saint-Jacques
CSA Astronaut
From its orbit 402 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth, the International Space Station collects a variety of data and imagery that benefit humanity. More than 3.5 million photographs of Earth have contributed to research on our atmosphere and climate change, monitoring of and response to natural disasters such as flooding and volcanic eruptions, studies of light pollution, and much more. The addition of artificial intelligence-driven image analysis drastically increased the accessibility and usefulness of images from space.
