Our planet can be too beautiful to be plausible some days. This frozen lake in the Himalayas is shockingly deep blue set against the slightly-oxidized rusty landscape. And it’s completely real, photographed from the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly photographed this patch of the Himalayan mountains, posting it on January 9, 2015.
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Top image: A frozen lake in the Himalayas. Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly
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