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Looking Westward from the East Coast at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 09/18/13) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Via Flickr: One of three Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 18 photographed this high oblique night image showing dozens of major cities and communities on the east coast and points west toward the Great Lakes area, and even areas to the southwest. Long Island, NY is a tell-tale identifier as it juts out into the Atlantic Ocean in the lower right portion of the image. The estuary known as Long Island Sound is also visible at lower right. The New York metropolitan area is largely visible below the tip of one of the space station's solar array panels. Image credit: NASA Original image: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-37/html/... More about space station research: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html View more photos like this in the "NASA Earth Images" Flickr photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/ _____________________________________________ These official NASA photographs are being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photographs. The photographs may not be used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement by NASA. All Images used must be credited. For information on usage rights please visit: www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelin...

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Looking Westward from the East Coast at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 09/18/13) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Flickr.

Via Flickr: One of three Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 18 photographed this high oblique night image showing dozens of major cities and communities on the east coast and points west toward the Great Lakes area, and even areas to the southwest. Long Island, NY is a tell-tale identifier as it juts out into the Atlantic Ocean in the lower right portion of the image. The estuary known as Long Island Sound is also visible at lower right. The New York metropolitan area is largely visible below the tip of one of the space station's solar array panels. Image credit: NASA

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Looking Westward from the East Coast at Night (NASA, International Space Station, 09/18/13) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Flickr.

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Shadow of the Moon, Pacific Ocean (NASA, International Space Station, 05/20/12) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Flickr.

Via Flickr: Photographed by the Expedition 31 crew aboard the International Space Station and easily spotted at top center in this image is the gray shadow of the moon, cast on bright clouds of the northern Pacific Ocean, as the May 20 solar eclipse point tracked towards the Aleutian Islands and then on to northern California. The eclipse is seen obliquely so it appears as a flattened circle. The eclipse was visible for about 3.5 hours, and since the ISS orbits Earth every 90 minutes there was a chance that the ISS crew would see (if not the total eclipse by looking directly overhead), some evidence at least in the form of a partial eclipse. Only since the start of human spaceflight could such an image have been shot, looking back at the moon's shadow projected against Earth. As it happened, say NASA scientists, the timing was almost as good as if it had been planned. The space station passed "behind" the eclipse on May 20, that is, the shadow of the eclipse passed the point in the Northwest Pacific Ocean only three minutes before the station crossed the same point. But the crew was still able to see the densest part of the shadow a little more than 600 kilometers to the northeast of their position when they shot this photograph. The edge of the shadow looks diffused because of the partial eclipse zone—the wide area where more or less of the sun can be seen around the edge of the moon. The zone of partial eclipse covers a far wider area than the area covered by the total eclipse. Twenty-six minutes later, as they approached Antarctica in the other hemisphere, the six-member crew saw the sun set as they passed onto the dark side of the planet. Image credit: NASA/JSC