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Editor’s Note: This is an archive image from 2006. I felt like a little color today. The Aurora Borealis, also known as "northern lights," is featured in this photograph taken by an Expedition 13 crew member on the International Space Station. The moon is visible at upper right. Image credit: NASA View original image/caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-13/html/… [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is an archive image from 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember on the International Space Station. The location of New Orleans, in a shallow depression within unconsolidated deltaic sediments, makes it particularly vulnerable to subsidence and increased likelihood of flooding. The average elevation [...]
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Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and Michigan are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member on the International Space Station. The twin cities of Sault Ste Marie are located across the St. Mary’s River that forms part of the international boundary between Canada (Province of Ontario) and the United States (State of [...]
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Editor’s note: I’ve added this to our "NASA Views Earth at Night" Flickr photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ Sicily is featured in this night time image captured by one of the Expedition 28 crew members aboard the International Space Station, approximately 220 miles above Earth. The land mass in upper right corner is part of the "toe" of [...]
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Most of the Hawaiian Islands and Earth’s horizon are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station. Image/caption credit: NASA spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-15/html/… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Science. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/ By: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
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Editor’s Note: A detail from this larger panoramic image: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/4554348391/ Volcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The Pacific coastline of much of Central America is marked by a line of active and quiescent volcanoes known to geologists as the [...]
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