The San Francisco Bay Area in the US state of California is pictured in the fiftieth edition.

In this edition, we look at a rare cloud-free view of Ireland, Great Britain and northern France.

The largest outlet glacier on Greenland's east coast is pictured in this edition.

In this edition, we look at the Po River, which flows over 650 km across northern Italy.

In this edition, northern China is pictured in an image from the Envisat satellite.

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds and Erik Ivins from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory join the show to discuss our planet's polar ice sheets. Their new research shows that melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has contributed 11.1 millimetres to global sea levels since 1992.

The islands of Elba and Pianosa off Italy's north western coast are featured in the forty-fifth edition.

In this edition, discover the Tibesti Mountains, rising above the sands of the Sahara.

In this edition, we explore southern Spain's Granada province.

A radar image of the island of Cyprus is featured in the forty-second edition.