14 November 2011
Autumn Night in America- Amazing Views From ISS
Posted by Dan Satterfield
View of the Southeast U.S. at night from the ISS. Image from NASA.
We’ve all seen many photos from space, but they never show the stars and the city lights that astronauts see, because cameras do lousy in very low light. Until now:
… and the pass from NW to SE across the U.S. Look for Chicago halfway through, and at the end, the rectangular outline of Puerto Rico shows up very well! These were taken with a special low light camera on-board the ISS in mid October (2011).
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.