What a privilege ....!!

[Louis]

There's no place like home. Peering out of the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes in the planet on which we were all born, and to which she would soon return. About 350 kilometers up, the ISS is high enough so that the Earth's horizon appears clearly curved. Astronaut Dyson's windows show some of Earth's complex clouds, in white, and life giving atmosphere and oceans, in blue.

The space station orbits the Earth about once every 90 minutes. It is not difficult for people living below to look back toward the ISS. The ISS can frequently be seen as a bright point of light drifting overhead just after sunset. Telescopes can even resolve the overall structure of the space station.

The above image was taken in late September from the ISS's Cupola window bay.

 

[Bootie]

Great picture... thanks for sharing.

 

[Hedgehog]

Second that Louis I can read her thought's, Great picture

 

[Wigam]

Almost seems a bit movie like. I am so jealous.

 

[Louis]

Locate the Space Station right now ...

Link:

http://www.n2yo.com/

 

[Wigam]

Nice web link Louis. I see that it crosses over Argentina in its travel's, make sure they don't throw something from the windows at you.

At this very moment that I write this it is rocking through the South Pacific in the beautiful sun.

 

[Lighthorse]

Thanks Louis

 

[Louis]

I'm glad you liked it ...

Alternatively ....

http://space.cweb.nl/tracking-iss-zarya.php

 

[Lighthorse]

Put picture in my folder to be used as computer background...:")

 

[Michael Clarke]

What a view.

A view currently only accessible to an ultra minority of wicked-smaht NAS-ites.

Maybe in the not too distant future, a once in a lifetime visit to orbiting spacecraft will be part of the normal human experience. Not for just the wealthy elite or astronauts, but for every single human being on Earth, as part of maybe the high school curriculum. Or maybe a university degree in Earth Stewardship with the final assignment a week long stay on MIR-7.

The future belongs to those who dream.

 

[Wigam]

I'm glad you liked it ...

Alternatively ....

http://space.cweb.nl/tracking-iss-zarya.php

Good site, Louis, When I clicked on the link, it had just tracked over New Zealand and was heading into the darkness. I couldn't resist waving to them, lol. :welcome:

 

[PoorOldSpike]

The ISS in the 'ORBITER' spaceflight simulator. i've arrowed the viewing cupola where she was-

PS- ORBITER is a free download at- http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/home.php

 

[Louis]

Galileo Galilei, I. Newton, Copernicus and others ... what would they say to see this beauty?

 

[Louis]

Parts of the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea are easily noted in this unusual circular shaped image exposed by one of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth.

A 16mm f/2.8D lens gives this image a fish-eye effect, and the frame of the Cupola window adds to the circular shape.

The southern portion of the Florida peninsula, including the elongated metropolitan Miami area, Lake Okeechobee and the Florida Keys, lies just a few kilometers away from islands in the Bahamas chain and the "Tongue of the Ocean." Andros is the largest visible island to the left of center.

 

[Hedgehog]

Put picture in my folder to be used as computer background...:")

That's a good idea I have done the same.....Thank's for that