NASA releases stunning images of Earth

NASA has released new images of Earth captured from the International Space Station using both still and video cameras on board.

This image provided by NASA shows the Space Shuttle Endeavour backdropped by a colorful Earth and the blackness of space. (AAP)

NASA has released new images of Earth captured from the International Space Station.

Using both still and video cameras on board, astronauts took the images which technicians on the ground turned into digitised videos.

The sequences come courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center.

From its orbit 460 kilometres above Earth the crew onboard the ISS turned on the cameras and recorded images as it raced above the planet, travelling at nearly 28,000 km per hour.