More than a foot of snow covered parts of the East Coast on Saturday morning, as winter storm Jonas battered the region. Photo: Reuters

SEEING photos of Earth taken from space is nothing new.

It’s cool, but let’s be honest, we’ve seen it before.

NASA has previously released high resolution images showing our planet in all its colourful glory — think the deep blue ocean, wispy white clouds and the green and brown of all the continents.

Now, the space agency has shown us something completely different. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) teamed up to gather night-time images of Winter Storm Jonas — the massive snowstorm that swept across the US east coast on the weekend.

The results were spectacular.

Winter Storm Jonas saw New York receive its second-highest level of snowfall since records began in 1869, while five states encountered 90cm or more of snowfall.

The ferocious blizzard resulted in travel bans as 11 states declared a state of emergency, while there are reports of the storm claiming between 19 and 21 lives.

Four hundred car crashes were reported in New York alone, more than 2000 flights in and out of airports were cancelled and there were allegedly several thousand metro area power outages.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has been on board the International Space Station since March last year, and is set to become the first American to spend an entire year in space in one voyage.

He tweeted some more incredible pictures from his unique vantage point.

The travel ban has since been lifted and the clean-up across the east coast has begun.