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Data acquired February 3, 2012 720 x 480 JPEG
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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station adjusted the camera for night imaging and captured the green veils and curtains of an aurora that spanned thousands of kilometers over Canada.
Astronaut photograph ISS030-E-110900 was acquired on February 3, 2012, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 28 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 a member of the Expedition 30 crew. The image 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 D. Kring, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association; Michael Trenchard, Barrios Technology, Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC; and M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University, Jacobs Contract at NASA-JSC.
Published August 8, 2016 Data acquired February 3, 2012