Photograph: Graeme Campbell/National Park Authorities

Glenridding by Graeme Campbell - one of the many great photos submitted to the national parks landscape photo competition

Photograph: Daniel Start/wildswimming.com

Pont du Diable, near Thuyets - just one of the places to go wild swimming in France

Photograph: ISS/NASA

One of the fascinating shots in our monthly gallery of images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites:

The city of Shanghai (right) sits along the delta banks of the Yangtze river along the eastern coast of China. It is the world’s most populous city (the 2010 census counted 23 million people, including “unregistered” residents). With so many humans, the city is a tremendous sight at night. The bright lights of the city centre and the distinctive new skyscrapers that form the skyline along the Pudong district (the eastern shore of the Huangpu river, a tributary of the Yangtze that cuts through the centre of Shanghai) make for spectacular night viewing both on the ground and from space. On the left is Suzhou located 120km from Shanghai

Photograph: Amos Chapple

A Kurdish girl on a rooftop in Palangan from a gallery of images by Amos Chapple, a New Zealand photographer with Lonely Planet. Over the winter he visited Iran’s Kurdish region to photograph the near-vertical Palangan village. He has given his pictures exclusively to the Guardian’s Iran blog

guardianartanddesign:

Farshid Moussavi: opening our eyes to new ways of city living

Always inventive, never predictable, this architect’s fascination lies in making pieces of city in a globalised world

• Farshid Moussavi will be in conversation with Rowan Moore at the Guardian’s Open Weekend. Find out more and book tickets

A great opportunity to meet Moussavi from our culture team.

Wild horses, couldn’t drag me away

Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

More pics in our week in wildlife gallery

Wintery weather last week in the UK from members of our Flickr group. Thanks for some fantastic snow scenes.

Credits for the images above:

ojchamberlain on Flickr

djshoo on Flickr

chansen1972 on Flickr

Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

Beijing, China: visitors view ice sculptures at the Yanqing ice festival.

There’s more where this came from in our stunning 24 hours in pictures series

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Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images

Dora, Lebanon: Seagulls fly past an oil tanker

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