{"id":14127,"date":"2017-12-14T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/recent-snapshots-from-the-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T11:13:34","slug":"recent-snapshots-from-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/recent-snapshots-from-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent snapshots from the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent photos from the International Space Station\u2019s Expedition 53 crew show wildfires burning in Southern California, expansive views of the Himalayas, cities by night and day, and colorful vistas of sites around the world.<\/p>\n

The space station orbits around 250 miles (450 kilometers) above Earth, on a path that takes it between 51.6 degrees north and south latitude on each 90-minute trip around the planet.<\/p>\n

These images captured from over the last three months were shared by the station\u2019s crew on social media, or posted on NASA\u2019s website. The captions were written by NASA, or one of the station crew members.<\/p>\n

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The spectacular aurora borealis, or the \u201cnorthern lights,\u201d over Canada is sighted from the space station near the highest point of its orbital path. The station\u2019s main solar arrays are seen in the left foreground. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This night time view of southern Europe prominently features the \u201cboot\u201d of Italy, the home of current Expedition 53 crew member Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mizuna is pictured being cultivated inside the Veggie facility for the Veg-03 botany experiment. Future long-duration missions will look to have crew members grow their own food, so understanding how plants respond to microgravity is an important step toward that goal. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Flight Engineer Joe Acaba installs botany gear for the Veggie facility to demonstrate plant growth in space for the Veg-03 experiment. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Southern California wildfires could be seen by the International Space Station crew. NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik photographed the plumes of smoke and shared the images with his followers on social media, writing, \u201cThank you to all the first responders, firefighters, and citizens willing to help fight these California wildfires.\u201d Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Southern California wildfires could be seen by the International Space Station crew. NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik photographed the plumes of smoke and shared the images with his followers on social media, writing, \u201cThank you to all the first responders, firefighters, and citizens willing to help fight these California wildfires.\u201d Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cHola #Barcelona! \/\/ Good morning Barcelona!\u201d \u2014 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli. Credit: NASA\/ESA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cWhether from below, above or way above, London is a unique and captivating city.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cHaircut Saturday.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Joe Acaba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cThis is #Patagonia. The photos were taken as part of the Uragan experiment. According to this experiment, we taking photos the glacier of Patagonia. The scientists analyses this photos and note the dynamic of deglaciation.\u201d \u2014 Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cMount #Fuji located on Honshu Island. Mount Fuji\u2019s exceptionally symmetrical cone is a well-known symbol of #Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers.\u201d \u2014 Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cWhen we take a picture of somewhere on Earth we are unfamiliar, @Astro_Sabot (Mark Vande Hei) shows how we look it up and learn where we were.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSince we live in 0-G we don\u2019t need a selfie stick to shoot the perfect crew picture.\u201d \u2014 ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSome new photos of forest #fires in Southern #California\u2026\u201d \u2014 Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cThe caldera of Pico de Fogo pokes up through the haze on Fogo Island.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cOne night in Bangkok, or at least over Bangkok, alive with fishing boats in the waters and a lightning flash to show the size of a storm.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGood Morning Dallas & Houston. God Bless Texas!\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cThe #supermoon rising over Mongolia. Good night from @Space_Station.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGood morning from @Space_Station. Karachi, Pakistan\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGood morning from @Space_Station. Istanbul, Turkey\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cDominican Republic and Haiti show off their beauty in the setting sun.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cFrom the ground or from orbit, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is an amazingly unique feature on our planet.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cWith the blackness of space above, far away on our horizon, the impressive vertical of Mt. Everest\/Sagarmatha stands out.\u201d \u2014 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Recent photos from the International Space Station\u2019s Expedition 53 crew show wildfires burning in Southern California, expansive views of the Himalayas, cities by night and day, and colorful vistas of sites around the world. The space station orbits around 250 miles (450 kilometers) above Earth, on a path that takes it between 51.6 degrees north […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159,3101,1545,717,3024,1725,3102,711],"class_list":["post-14127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-earth-observation","tag-expedition-53","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-international-space-station","tag-joe-acaba","tag-mark-vande-hei","tag-paolo-nespoli","tag-randy-bresnik"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}