Editor’s note: Hello, Dixieland. Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ Southeastern USA at night is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 30 crew member on the International Space Station. The brightly lit metropolitan areas of Atlanta, GA (center) and Jacksonville, FL (lower right) appear largest in the image with [...]

Layers of Earth’s atmosphere, brightly colored as the sun rises, are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA Read full caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-16/html/… More about the Crew Earth Observation experiment aboard the International Space Station: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/CE… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s a new [...]

Layers of Earth’s atmosphere, brightly colored as the sun rises over central Asia, and Polar Mesospheric Clouds (also known as noctilucent clouds) are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. The image was acquired in support of International Polar Year research. Image credit: NASA Read full caption: [...]

Layers of Earth’s atmosphere, brightly colored as the sun sets over South America, are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA Read full caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-17/html/… More about the Crew Earth Observation experiment aboard the International Space Station: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/CE… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html [...]

The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real, because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it’s very loud. [...]