This high-oblique view of the Gaspe Peninsula and Anticosti Island with sun glint on the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Chaleur Bay, Canada, was photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA View original image/caption: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-24/html/… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space [...]

This oblique photo of Ethiopia and part of the Red Sea was photographed by one of the Expedition 33 crew members aboard the International Space Station. The name of the funnel-shaped area is the Afar Depression or Afar Triangle. The green body of water is Lake Tana, connected to the Blue Nile. Image credit: NASA [...]

Editor’s Note: This is part of a small set of Hurricane Earl images seen from space: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157624864258510/ Photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station, this is an oblique view of the eye (just above center frame) of Hurricane Earl (at this time a category 4 but later downgraded to a [...]

Editor’s Note: This is part of a small set of Hurricane Earl images seen from space: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157624864258510/ A high-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. At the time the photo was taken, the [...]

Editor’s Note: This is part of a small set of Hurricane Earl images seen from space: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157624864258510/ A high-oblique view of the extra-tropical unnamed cyclone that merged with Hurricane Earl is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. At the time the photo was taken, the [...]

This high oblique panorama shows Morocco and Spain as photographed by the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station. The Atlantic Ocean, Straits of Gibraltar and Alboran Sea (the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea) separate Spain on the right from Morocco on the left. Algeciras Harbor is the prominent notch cut out [...]