![]() ![]() Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 43 crew. Mount Rainier lies immediately southeast of Seattle about 65 kilometers (40 miles) away.Īstronaut photograph ISS042-E-294596 was acquired on February 28, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 22 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. In this image, Portland, the Seattle-Tacoma metropolis, and Vancouver are all visible. In the foreground, the Columbia River drains the basin, cuts directly through the Cascades at Columbia River Gorge, and then flows into the Pacific Ocean.Ĭities typically appear as dull gray zones, but astronauts learn to detect these sometimes difficult targets. By contrast, the tan colors of the dry Columbia Basin (lower right) show the rain shadow effect of the Cascades in preventing rain-bearing air masses from reaching the basin. Greener, forested landscapes are evidence of the wet climate experienced by people who live near the coast and on the seaward slopes of the mountains. The cloud bands of an approaching winter storm (upper left) signal a bout of approaching rain to what is one of the wettest parts of North America. Short-lens panoramic views often reveal environmental patterns. One of the space station’s solar arrays points into the view on the upper left. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Hood-dot the Cascades. northwest in the foreground gives way to the Rocky Mountains and Coast Mountains in Canada, with Vancouver Island just offshore. The snow-covered Cascade Range of the U.S. of Washington), the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) team, and R.This panoramic photograph was taken by an astronaut looking north from the International Space Station. > More: Hubble’s High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. Most of the stars in the universe live inside such majestic star cities, and this is the first data that reveal populations of stars in context to their home galaxy. Never before have astronomers been able to see individual stars inside an external spiral galaxy over such a large contiguous area. This ambitious photographic cartography of the Andromeda galaxy represents a new benchmark for precision studies of large spiral galaxies that dominate the universe’s population of over 100 billion galaxies. And there are lots of stars in this sweeping view - over 100 million, with some of them in thousands of star clusters seen embedded in the disk. It’s like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disk. The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor. Another Typhoon Hits the Philippines : Image of the Day Nasa Earth, Luzon, South. Not much more to say about this other than that. Panorama of the Pacific Northwest: The Cascades, Rockies, and Coast. ![]()
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