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Soyuz Over the Black Sea (NASA, International Space Station, 11/22/11)

Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
This photograph, taken from the International Space Station flying approximately 220 miles above Earth, was captured by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, as he visually followed the course of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying the Expedition 29 threesome of Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov toward their entry through the atmosphere. According to a Twitter message from Burbank, the Soyuz appears as a tiny streak near the exact center of the image. The orbital outpost was over a point near the southeastern Black Sea (bottom) looking generally northeastward over southern Russia/eastern Ukraine. A Russian Progress spacecraft, docked to the station, appears at the top of the frame.

Image credit: NASA

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European Panorama at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 01/22/12)

Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Editor’s note: I LOVED coming in to this fantabulous image this morning. What a scene the crew has captured! Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/

With hardware from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station appearing in the near foreground, a night time European panorama reveals city lights from Belgium and the Netherlands at bottom center, the British Isles partially obscured by solar array panels at left, the North Sea at left center, and Scandinavia at right center beneath the end effector of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System or Canadarm2.

Image credit: NASA

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Window to the World (NASA, International Space Station Science, 02/10)

Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Floating just below the International Space Station, astronaut Nicholas Patrick put some finishing touches on the newly installed cupola space windows last week. Patrick was a mission specialist onboard the space shuttle Endeavor’s recently completed STS-130 mission to the ISS.

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