Editor’s note: I’ve added this to our "NASA Views Earth at Night" Flickr photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ The Nile River Delta and part of the Mediterranean Sea can be seen in this night time photo captured by one of the Expedition 28 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles. [...]
Editor’s note: Gorgeous image from the Human SpaceFlight site (spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-30/html/…) last night. The quantity and quality of of the Station images never cease to amaze me. Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ This nighttime image photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station provides a [...]
Editor’s Note: This is an archive image from 2006. Gibraltar Bay, located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula in the western Mediterranean Sea, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember on the International Space Station. According to scientists, the famous Rock of Gibraltar that forms the northeastern border of [...]
Much of the Middle East is seen in this night time image photographed by one of the Expedition 31 crew members aboard the International Space Station as it flew some 240 miles above the Mediterranean Sea on June 4, 2012. The Nile River Delta is easily recognizable in center frame, and city lights make it [...]
Egypt–Israel borderlands, northern Sinai Peninsula and northern Negev Desert are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 29 crew member on the International Space Station. A clearly visible line that marks approximately 50 kilometers of the international border between Egypt and Israel – 10-60 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea to the northwest (not shown) [...]