Elephants. Here are the two kinds of animals you can see from space: 1. The space agency is officially beginning to investigate the Steppe Geoglyphs, a group of more than 200 giant squares, lines, and rings formed by dirt mounds in the Turgai area of northern Kazakhstan. It’s home to billions of coral polyps and thousands of tropical marine species and is the world’s largest living organism. Image credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is another one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World that can be seen from space. The spectacular reef stretches for over 2,600km and is made up of over 900 islands and 2,500 individual reefs. Florida's Lake Okeechobee can show you billions of green microbes in a crazy spawn spin. Above is an elephant walking by itself in the Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Quite a few mountains ranges can be seen from space, but perhaps the most impressive are the Himalayas. A series of unique and beautiful recorded views of planet Earth captured from 240 miles above it. This slimy green green shade looks even more gooey from outer space, as confirmed by the July 2 nd pictures of NASA's Landsat 8 satellite. Seriously, algae might help us grow food on Mars. Two specimens … How Kīlauea’s lava birthed an algal bloom visible from space. This blue-green algal bloom was seen first in the lake in early May. Dan Tani, recently aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 16, extended Don Pettit’s techniques for photographing city lights. Again, people really can’t see much of any detail Earth-wise from up there. The pool of bright green water off the coast of the Lower Mainland is so large it can be seen from space, visible from NASA satellites over the last two weeks. On a similar note, it’s also effectively out of sight for the International Space Station’s crewmembers. Algae that Survives Outer Space Could Help Us Grow Food on Mars. Rosalie Chan. You can even see … Photosynthesis Seen From Space (grades 6-11) ... (6-8) Plants, algae (including phytoplankton), and many microorganisms use the energy from light to make sugars (food) from carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and water through the process of photosynthesis, which also releases oxygen. Flickr / alex_quinn. 2.1.2017 6:33 PM. Algae from the Arctic Circle are used to tough weather, and it turns out they're also able to survive the extreme conditions of outer space. This video (see below), produced entirely by Pettit, takes you on a quick trip comparing cities from different regions, all viewed from the International Space Station. Claim the algae could only have come from space or a volcanic eruption This could provide evidence that the 'seeds of life' exist all over the Universe and …