Citizen Science with Night Images

Astronauts collect a lot of photos of Earth at night, but they don't always know what they are looking at. You can help.

---

Astronaut photograph ISS040-E-98889 was acquired on August 16, 2014, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using an effective 42 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 40 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, partly based on a release by Melissa Gaskill, NASA Johnson Space Center.

Published August 30, 2014
Data acquired August 2014

Source:

ISS > Digital Camera

Collection:

Astronaut Photography