Editor’s Note: This is part of a small photoset, "NASA Views Earth at Night." I’ll try to keep adding as time permits. www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ One of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station, 220 miles above Earth, took this night time photo, looking south along the Atlantic coast of Europe and into Africa, [...]
While flying above the Atlantic Ocean, one of the members of the joint Atlantis-International Space Station crews took this photo of the Delmarva Peninsula from the orbiting complex on July 16, 2011. Image credit: NASA Original image: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-28/html/… More about space station research: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome [...]
Parts of the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea are easily noted in this unusual circular shaped image exposed by one of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth. A 16mm f/2.8D lens gives this image a fish-eye effect, and the frame of the Cupola window adds [...]
This image is part of a series showing many of the steps to recover a Solid Rocket Booster, beginning with landing of the booster in the Atlantic ocean some 140 to 160 miles east of the coast of Florida. The final images show Liberty Star and Freedom Star recovery ships arrival at the dock at [...]
This image is part of a series showing many of the steps to recover a Solid Rocket Booster, beginning with landing of the booster in the Atlantic ocean some 140 to 160 miles east of the coast of Florida. The final images show Liberty Star and Freedom Star recovery ships arrival at the dock at [...]
Editor’s note: Meant to add this earlier — hey, happy Friday to all! A nighttime view of Baltimore, Maryland is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 33 crew member in the International Space Station. Baltimore is located on the U.S. mid-Atlantic coastline along the terminus of the Patapsco River into Chesapeake Bay, and [...]