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Collection:
NASA Human Spaceflight Collection
General Description:
International Space Station Imagery
Description:
ISS011-E-12415 (31 August 2005) --- Aurora Borealis and lights in Finland, Russia, Estonia and Latvia are featured in this digital still picture taken by the Expedition 11 crew aboard the International Space Station. If it were daylight parts of the Eastern Baltic Sea would be visible. The station was over a point on Earth located at 50.6 degrees north latitude and 15.1 degees east longitude at the time. The cluster of stars to the lower right of the thin crescent Moon is the Praesepe or Beehive Cluster in Cancer. Just to the right of that is the planet Saturn.
image id:
Photo-iss011e12415
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Cancer
facet_what:
Saturn
facet_what:
International Space Station (ISS)
facet_where:
Russia
facet_where:
Finland
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Baltic Sea
facet_where:
Estonia
facet_where:
Latvia
facet_where:
Saturn
facet_when:
31 August 2005
facet_when_year:
2005
UID:
SPD-SPFLT-Photo-iss0 11e12415
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