Parts of New Jersey, right side of frame, and New York City (generally, left part of photo) are the focus of this still image downlinked from the International Space Station while docked with the space shuttle Discovery. Image/caption credit: NASA spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-23/html/… More about space station science: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.html There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Science. [...]
Editor’s note: a nice shot from way back in the summer… This nadir view from the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, shows parts of two countries, including the Finger Lakes area of New York and part of two Great Lakes — Ontario and Erie and the Niagara River, which [...]
Background: Alyson Shotz, The Shape of Space, 2004. At the hall of the New York Guggenheim. By: enric archivell
From approximately 220 miles above Earth, one of the Expedition 26 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this wintry picture of metropolitan New York City, which was bracing for its third heavy storm of the season. The crew member used a 70-mm focal length on a digital still camera to record the image. [...]
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York By: 16 Miles of String
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York By: 16 Miles of String