Monday, February 6, 2012

Amazing Panorama of Western Europe at Night from Space Station

Amazing Panorama of Western Europe at Night from Space Station:

Western Europe at Night
European ‘Cities at Night’ from the ISS with station solar arrays and robotic hand in foreground.
Credit: NASA
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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 the British Isles partially obscured by twin solar arrays at left, the North Sea at left center, Belgium and the Netherlands (Holland) at bottom center, and the Scandinavian land mass at right center by the hand, or end effector, of the Canadian-built ISS robotic arm known as (...)
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