ISS and Astronaut seen from Earth

Credit & Copyright: Ralf Vandebergh
Explanation: These two frames, taken with a video camera and a telescope, reveal remarkable details of the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting some 350 kilometers above planet Earth. Recorded during last month's visit by the crew of shuttle orbiter Discovery on mission STS-119, the pictures show extended solar arrays glinting in bright sunlight against a dark sky. They also likely capture the blurred image of a spacewalking astronaut during the mission's EVA-2 (Extravehicular Activity-2)! The astronaut is installing equipment along one of the station's truss assemblies. Astronomer Ralf Vandebergh, who often images the ISS during its favorable passes through Dutch skies, comments that no other bright ISS structures occupy the position indicated in the inset, and that a reflective, white-suited astronaut would be visible against the truss and correspond to the bright blur. Vandebergh notes that the timing and location further suggest the spacewalker is STS-119 astronaut Joseph Acaba.

Size & Scale of the Universe - Picture sequence

Picture series representing the scale and location of the observable universe.

The Observable Universe

The superclusters


The Virgo supercluster


The Local Group


Nearest structures


The Milky Way


The Orion arm


250 light years radio



20 light years radio



12 light years radio

Where is the earth in this scale



Another view of the Milky Way

Planet Earth - High Resolution - Actual Pictures

9-11 Press

Several media Cover Pages of the tragedy

Historical Photographs

Historical Photographs

Collection Rare WWI Color Pictures

collection rare WWI color picture

Pictures - Great Wall Of China, Juyong

Great Wall Juyong

AIDS Virus Real Photo

AIDS Virus Real Photo

Africa From Above

Africa From Above

Actual Pictures From Another Worlds

Actual Pictures From Another Worlds

Images

Imagénes fantásticas

First Photo From Space 1947

The First Photo From Space
In 1946, rocket-borne cameras gave us our first look at Earth from beyond the atmosphere.
By Tony Reichhardt

On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space.
The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half, the rocket-borne camera climbed straight up, then fell back to Earth minutes later, slamming into the ground at 500 feet per second. The camera itself was smashed, but the film, protected in a steel cassette, was unharmed.



First Photo From Space

Space Shuttle Pictorial. A Mission (35 Pics)

SpaceShuttle(Photo)

Pictures. Not everyday sights...

Unusual Pictures

Poverty -Cambodia pictorial

Un mundo no muy lejano...

1000 Islands - Pictorial

1000 Islands - Pictorial

46 National Geographic Selected Pics

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Unusual Pictures

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Volcano Tungurahua, Pic

Erupts Volcano Tungurahua erupted spectacularly last year. Pictured above, molten rock so hot it glows visibly pours down the sides of the 5,000-meter high Tungurahua, while a cloud of dark ash is seen being ejected toward the left. Wispy white clouds flow around the lava-lit peak, while a star-lit sky shines in the distance. The above image was captured last year as ash fell around the adventurous photographer. Located in Ecuador, Tungurahua has become active roughly every 90 years since for the last 1,300 years. Volcano Tungurahua has started erupting again this year and continues erupting at a lower lever even today.

Saturn's Iapetus Moon, Pic

Kilometers Above Saturn's Iapetus What does the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Iapetus look like? To help find out, the robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn was sent soaring last week just 2,000 kilometers from the unique equatorial ridge of the unusual walnut-shaped two-toned moon. The above image from Cassini is from about 4,000 kilometers out and allows objects under 100-meters across to be resolved. Cassini found an ancient and battered landscape of craters, sloping hills, and mountains as high as 10 kilometers and so rival the 8.8-kilometer height of Mt. Everest on Earth. Just above the center of this image is a small bright patch where an impacting rock might have uncovered deep clean water ice. Space scientists will be studying flyby images like this for clues to the origin of Iapetus' unusual shape and coloring with particular emphasis because no more close flybys of the enigmatic world are planned.