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Expedition 30

Beautiful Image: The Moon as Seen from the Space Station

April 16, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A lovely view for the start of your week: The Moon and Earth’s atmosphere as seen from the International Space Station, taken by a member of the current Expedition 30 crew. See more images from the crew here. Remove this ad

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A Continent Ablaze in Auroral and Manmade Light

February 12, 2012

Video Caption: Up the East Coast of North America. Credit: NASA The North American continent is literally set ablaze in a confluence of Auroral and Manmade light captured in spectacular new videos snapped by the astronauts serving aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The Expedition 30 crew has recently filmed lengthy sequences of images that [...]

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Cities at Night Panorama of Millions of US East Coast Earthlings

February 4, 2012

Do you live here? Tens of millions of Earthlings live and work in the bustling and seemingly intertwined American mega-metropolis of the Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center splotch) captured in this stunning “Cities at Night” panorama of the East Coast of the United States along the Atlantic seaboard (image above). Look northward and you’ll see [...]

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Amazing Panorama of Western Europe at Night from Space Station

January 31, 2012

An amazing panorama revealing Western Europe’s ‘Cities at Night’ with hardware from the stations robotic ‘hand’ and solar arrays in the foreground was captured by the crew in a beautiful new image showing millions of Earth’s inhabitants from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). The sweeping panoramic vista shows several Western European countries starting with [...]

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Strait of Hormuz Shot from the International Space Station – World Strategic Flashpoint

January 14, 2012

A beautiful and peaceful Christmas-time picture of The Strait of Hormuz was shot from the International Space Station (ISS) soaring some 250 miles (400 kilometers) overhead on Christmas Eve, 24 Dec 2011. Today, the economically vital Strait of Hormuz is a ‘Flashpoint of Tension’ between Iran and the US and much of the rest of [...]

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