Cairo from Ikonos The city of Cairo and te river Nile taken from the satellite IKONOS. Color image. www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/international/cairo.htm
Meteosat Images Fantastic images from the satellite EUMETSAT. In color. www.eumetsat.de/en/index.html?area=left5.html&body=/en/m_area5.html&a=500&b=0&c=0&d=0...
Southern Europe and Northern Africa See an image of Southern European countries Spain and Italy and the northern part of Africa directly from the US satellite NOAA. www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/remote_sensing/archive_pages/pl_seurope.htm
The Amazon If you've only ever heard about the Amazon forest, here you can see it with your own eyes, from the NOAA satellite. www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/remote_sensing/archive_pages/def_amazonia.htm
The Earth by night The lights of the Earth: see the lit up and dark areas of the Earth with this interesting infrared satellite map. www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/remote_sensing/archive_pages/pop_earth_lights.htm
Mississippi River A color satellite image of the Mississippi river all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/remote_sensing/archive_pages/riv_mississippi.htm
Mount Vesuvius A satellite photo of Mount Vesuvius near Naples in Italy. Highly unusual. www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/remote_sensing/archive_pages/vol_vesuvius.htm
Mosaic of the Earth A Mosaic of the world made up of images taken from various satellites in orbit: GOES, Clementine, Meteosat and many more. ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/images/planets/earth/earthmap.gif