The most detailed full-disc image of Earth ever taken from space has been released by Nasa.

The beautiful picture, which was taken on January 15th, show clouds gathering over North and Central America, and picks out the lush emerald green of the rainforests in South America.

It was among the first images sent back from Nasa’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) camera aboard its GOES-16 weather satellite which is stationed 22,000 miles above Earth and casts an unblinking eye on the planet.

The camera can provide a full-disc image of the Earth every 15 minutes, which is five times faster than current satellites, meaning the meteorologists can track the formation and progress of severe weather, hurricanes, wildfires and volcanoes faster than ever before.