What an Astronauts Camera Sees
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An intimate tour... in 1080p... of Earths most impressive landscapes... as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASAs astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.
We start with the coast of Namibia in southwestern Africa, the very dry desert coast of the Namib Desert. You can see a cloud band butting up against the shore and some straight sand dunes in the lower left of the picture. Yeah those are big red sand dunes that the astronauts say is one of the most beautiful sites that you can get when youre flying.
Coming into the view on the left is an impact crater right in the middle of the picture, right about now and some wind streaks. We know where this area is because its a bit unique. Weve got a major dune field coming into the picture on the left there: the Oriental Sand Sea, as its called in French, and on the top is the Isawan Sand Sea.
This is the island of Sicily with cloud over Mt. Etna, so you cant quite tell theres a big volcano in the middle of the picture right now. And theres the toe of the boot of Italy coming into the picture from the left. See a good example of sun glint on the right with the sea reflecting the sun.
This is the smooth east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula again. As you move inland it gets even more striking as a picture because of all the volcanoes on this peninsula and the snowy mountains. Theres a volcano just coming into the picture from the top left there. You can see a knob-shaped feature.
Here is a smaller finger of land in China sticking into the Pacific Ocean. In winter you can see all the snow lower left. This is called the Qindoa P eninsula and we recognize it. And again, the sun glint point moving along the coast upper center.
In a very clear picture, the Zagros mountains with snow on them in Iran, in the country of Iran.
Here we have the north coast of Australia and the gulf of Carpenteria and some islands. The biggest (
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An intimate tour... in 1080p... of Earths most impressive landscapes... as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASAs astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.
We start with the coast of Namibia in south... (
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