India is beautiful. These pictures clicked by various astronauts onboard the International Space Station show why.
1. Kanpur
2. Palk Strait
3. Kakinada
About 460 Kilometres from Hyderabad, Kakinada is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
4. Saser Mustagh
The Saser Muztagh is the easternmost subrange of the Karakoram range, in the Kashmir region of India.
5. Southern India
6. Taj Mahal
7. Lake Sambhar
8. Patna
9. Kolkata
10. Delhi
11. Mumbai
12. Kolkata by night
13. Bangalore by night
14. The India Pakistan border
See that orange line along the border? Those are the floodlights Indian government erected in 2003 along the terrain separating India and Pakistan in Gujarat to prevent smuggling and arms trafficking.