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We are moving towards the end of year 2011. A few days
are left now. The memoirs of the events occurred in this year is being
saved. So many events occurred this year, but we are referring to some
of the biggest events have occurred on the earth seen from space and
also saved by the camera’s eye.
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Tahrir Square in Cairo became the hub for Egypt's revolution. Protesters
are seen here rallying in the square on 11 February, the day they
unseated President Hosni Mubarak - the country's ruler for nearly 30
years.
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This picture taken on 12 March shows unimaginable devastation in Natori,
Japan, after tsunami waves inundated the coast. The Magnitude 9 undersea
quake on 11 March unleashed waves tens of metres in height, bringing
death and destruction to the country's eastern seaboard.
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Shipping containers lie strewn like Lego bricks across a dockyard in
Sendai port, eastern Japan, following the 11 March earthquake and
tsunami. The quake is thought to have moved Japan's main island about
20m westward.
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This image shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan
taken at 1104 local time, just three minutes after an explosion wrecked
reactor number three. The chain of events sparked by a cooling system
failure at the plant plunged Japan into a nuclear emergency.
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The image on the left shows wreckage from a US military helicopter used
in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on 2 May. The same wreckage can
be seen inside the Al Qaeda leader's Abbottabad compound in the picture
on the right, taken by GeoEye's Ikonos satellite.
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Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano pumps ash thousands of metres into
the atmosphere in this image acquired by Nasa's Terra satellite on 11
June.
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Viewers on the International Space Station saw the space shuttle
Atlantis returned to Earth for the last time on 21 July, looking like a
comet streaking across the atmosphere. The remaining space shuttles are
destined to become visitor attractions at museums across the US.
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A submarine volcanic eruption off the coast of El Hierro, one of Spain's
Canary Islands, released a thick green plume into the ocean. The plume
seen here is likely a mix of volcanic gases and a blend of crushed
pumice and seafloor rock.
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