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 [...]
Merowe Dam, Nile River and the Republic of the Sudan are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 25 crew member on the International Space Station. The Merowe Dam is located near the 4th cataract of the Nile River, in the Nubian Desert of the northeastern Republic of the Sudan (also known as Sudan). [...]
North and South Platte Rivers, Nebraska are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 15 crewmember on the International Space Station. Lake McConaughy and thousands of rectangular tan and green agricultural fields of western Nebraska and northeastern Colorado dominate this oblique scene. The crewmember that shot this view was looking towards the east-northeast, focusing [...]
Ice floes off the northeastern tip of Urup Island, Russia are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. From space, it is sometimes difficult to tell where land ends and sea ice begins in the southern Sea of Okhotsk. This is particularly evident in this detailed [...]