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Data acquired March 18, 2001 JPEG
Data acquired March 18, 2001 540 x 420 JPEG
Astronaut photography of the Earth from the International Space Station has achieved resolutions close to those available from commercial remote sensing satellites—with many photographs having spatial resolutions of less than six meters. Astronauts take the photographs by hand and physically compensate for the motion of the spacecraft relative to the Earth while the images are being acquired.
The image above represents a detailed portion of a digitized NASA photograph STS102-303-17, and was provided by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA-JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
Published May 6, 2002 Data acquired March 18, 2001