Some great views of the Earth from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
The Internation Space Station has been continuously manned since November 2, 2000 by over 200 different people and has traveled over 1.5 billion statute miles.
Wikipedia outlines the purpose of the station:
According to the original Memorandum of Understanding between NASA and RSA, the International Space Station was intended to be a laboratory, observatory and factory in space. It was also planned to provide transportation, maintenance, and act as a staging base for possible future missions to the Moon, Mars and asteroids.[24] In the 2010 United States National Space Policy, the ISS was given additional roles of serving commercial, diplomatic, and educational purposes.
This is Our Planet from Tomislav Safundžić on Vimeo.