By NASA Earth Observatory March 26, 2024
Picture of eastern Canada recorded on January 1, 2024, by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
Lights, snow, and clouds brighten this wintery scene of Earth’s northern latitudes.
An astronaut aboard the likely equatorial orbitwhich peaks about 52 degrees north of the equator. The viewpoint consists of a view of spaceport station’s photovoltaic panels in the foreground, Earth’s horizon about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles)away, and celestial things far in the range. Lights, snow, and clouds lighten up the winter season scene in the world.
2 of Canada’s provinces– Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador– are imagined together with the area of Nunavut on the other side of the Hudson Strait. Towards Earth’s limb, the coast of Greenland is faintly noticeable underneath the clouds. Greater in the environment, airglow hugs the curvature of Earth and the light of the aurora cuts throughout the scene.
Thin cloud layers cover the Atlantic Ocean, while clearer skies dominate the land exposing snow cover, the lights of little settlements, and rivers streaming towards Canada’s coast. Tucked into the frozen scene is Mistastin Lakewhich partly fills the anxiety of an effect crater. The crater functions as a website where astronauts are trained in geology and deal with strategies for planetary expedition.
Astronaut picture ISS070-E-51709 was obtained on January 1, 2024, with a Nikon D5 digital cam utilizing a focal length of 24 millimeters. It is supplied by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 70 team. The image has actually been cropped and boosted to enhance contrast, and lens artifacts have actually been gotten rid of. The International Space Station Program supports the lab as part of the ISS National Lab to assist astronauts take photos of Earth that will be of the best worth to researchers and the general public, and to make those images easily offered on the Internet. Caption by Andrea Wenzel/Jacobs-JETS II Contract at