The Frozen Wild Dnieper River

Dnieper is the 4th longest river in Europe, flowing from Russia south through Belarus and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea.

Credits: NASA/ESA/Thomas Pesquet

Curling snow drifts are magnified by the terrain around the 1,400 mile Dnieper River, flowing from Russia to the Black Sea.

European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, a member of the Expedition 50 crew, captured this image from the International Space Station on “Feb. 9th, 2017, saying, “winter landscapes are also magical from the International Space Station: this river north of Kiev reminds me of a Hokusai painting.”