Perth, Australia (NASA, International Space Station, 03/22/13)

A few nice space images I found:

Perth, Australia (NASA, International Space Station, 03/22/13)
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Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
An Expedition 35 astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed this image of the Perth, Australia area on March 22, 2013. The photo also features reef areas, Garden Island, Rockingham, and the Swan River estuary.

About Crew Earth Observations:

In Crew Earth Observations (CEO), crewmembers on the International Space Station (ISS) photograph the Earth from their unique point of view located 200 miles above the surface. Photographs record how the planet is changing over time, from human-caused changes like urban growth and reservoir construction, to natural dynamic events such as hurricanes, floods and volcanic eruptions. A major emphasis of CEO is to monitor disaster response events in support of the International
Disaster Charter (IDC). CEO imagery provides researchers on Earth with key data to understand the planet from the perspective of the ISS. Crewmembers have been photographing Earth from space since the early Mercury missions beginning in 1961. The continuous images taken from the ISS ensure this record remains unbroken.

Image credit: NASA

More about space station research:
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U.S. East Coast at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 01/29/12)
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Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Editor’s note: Hello, East Coast — it must be true that you never sleep! Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/

This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear "intertwined."

Image credit: NASA

Original image:
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More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html

There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/

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International Space Station (NASA, 9/8/09)
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Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
This was too pretty not to share…

Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation. Earlier the STS-128 and Expedition 20 crew concluded nine days of cooperative work onboard the shuttle and station. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 2:26 p.m. (CDT) on Sept. 8, 2009.

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