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It was a year that will go down in history: as the world emerged from the pandemic, life gradually began to return to normal - until the war in Ukraine brought a global recession and the celebrations of the Queen's Jubilee led to the mourning of her death.
Now, a new Channel 4 documentary, The Year From Space, has captured 2022 on camera, from an astronaut's point of view, enabling viewers to glimpse images that fewer than 650 people have seen with their own eyes.
Above our heads, hundreds of satellites orbit the earth, every 90 minutes, travelling at 27,000 kilometres an hour and taking more than four million photographs a day.
Whether they are capturing the natural world, or snapping mankind, the images reveal planet earth in a different light: from natural disasters such as wildfires, droughts, and floods, to the wonders of the Earth's ultimate lightshow, the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.
Some of the most enduring images include Tonga's terrifying volcano and Florida's devastating Hurricane Ian.
We see the crowds returning to St Peter's Square in Rome and millions of pilgrims gathering in Mecca for the Hajj while unknown colonies of penguins in Antarctica and plumes of herring spawn in the Pacific Ocean.
The Year from Space is on Channel 4 on Tuesday January 3 at 7.30pm.
Hurricane Ian is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Caribbean Sea east of Belize. At the time of this photograph, Ian was just south of Cuba gaining strength and heading toward Florida
It was a year that will go down in history: as the world emerged from the pandemic, life gradually began to return to normal. Pictured: Tulip fields in Lisse, Netherlands in full bloom
Until the war in Ukraine brought a global recession and the celebrations of the Queen's Jubilee led to the mourning of her death. Pictured: Hunga Tonga volcano that erupted
