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Glenn at the Cape
Title Glenn at the Cape
Full Description Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. in his silver Mercury spacesuit during pre- flight training activities at Cape Canaveral. On February 20, 1962 Glenn lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas (MA-6) rocket and became the first American to orbit the Earth. After orbiting the Earth 3 times, Friendship 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds later, just East of Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas. Glenn and his capsule were recovered by the Navy Destroyer Noa, 21 minutes after splashdown.
Date 02/27/1964
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Glenn Enters his Mercury Cap …
Title Glenn Enters his Mercury Capsule
Full Description Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. enters his Mercury capsule, "Friendship 7" as he prepares for launch of the Mercury-Atlas rocket. On February 20, 1962 Glenn lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) rocket and became the first American to orbit the Earth. After orbiting the Earth 3 times, Friendship 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds later, just East of Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas. Glenn and his capsule were recovered by the Navy Destroyer Noa, 21 minutes after splashdown.
Date 02/20/1962
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Glenn Suits-Up for Launch
Title Glenn Suits-Up for Launch
Full Description Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. dons his silver Mercury pressure suit in preparation for launch. On February 20, 1962 Glenn lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas (MA-6) rocket and became the first American to orbit the Earth. After orbiting the Earth 3 times, Friendship 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds later, just East of Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas. Glenn and his capsule were recovered by the Navy Destroyer Noa, 21 minutes after splashdown.
Date 02/20/1962
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
John Glenn OK
Title John Glenn OK
Full Description Astronaut John Glenn and technicians inspect artwork that will be painted on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft. John Glenn nicknamed his capsule "Friendship 7". On February 20, 1962 astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas (MA-6) rocket and became the first American to orbit the Earth. After orbiting the Earth 3 times, Friendship 7 landed in the Atlantic Ocean 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds later, just East of Grand Turk Island in the Bahamas. Glenn and his capsule were recovered by the Navy Destroyer Noa, 21 minutes after splashdown.
Date 02/02/1962
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Hurricane Frances
Title Hurricane Frances
Description This image of Hurricane Frances was acquired by the crew of the International Space Station early on August 30 as the storm was moving westward some 265 miles east-northeast of the northern Windward Islands. The storm was packing winds of 120 miles per hour at the time and appeared to be tracking towards the Bahamas Islands and eventually Florida. A large, ragged eye is visible with a large arc of high clouds flowing away from the top of the storm. Astronaut photograph ISS009-E-20909 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS009&roll=E&frame=20909 ] was acquired August 30, 2004, at 12:16:47 GMT with a Kodak K760C digital camera with an 26 mm lens, and is provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ ], Johnson Space Center. The International Space Station Program [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ ] supports the laboratory 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 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov ].
Hurricane Frances: Natural H …
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Southeastern United States a …
Title Southeastern United States and Caribbean Sea from Apollo 8 spacecraft
Description Most of the southeastern United States and Caribbean Sea, the U.S. coastline from Chesapeake Bay to the Florida peninsula can be seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft in orbit above the Earth. The Bahamas and the Islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispiniola and Puerto Rico extend across the Caribbean. The light blue of the shallow Bahama banks contrasts with the darker hue of the deeper water especially in the Tongue of the Ocean area.
Date Taken 1968-12-22
Air-to-air view of STS-26 Di …
Title Air-to-air view of STS-26 Discovery, OV-103, launch from KSC
Description Air-to-air view of STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, launch taken by T. Haydee Laguna, an airline passenger bound for Paradise Island in the Bahamas. She sent the photo of what she called "the most beautiful sight this side of Heaven" to NASA along with a congratulatory letter. OV-103 is a small dot as it rises through the clouds from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex (LC) pad 39B with a exhaust plume trailing behind it.
Date Taken 1988-12-15
Astronaut Shepard arrives at …
Title Astronaut Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island
Description Astronaut Alan Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island and is greeted by Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (right) and Donald Slayton (left) and also by Keith Lindell (between Shepard and Grissom) after the first American suborbital flight. He will participate in a press conference with Grissom and Slayton.
Date Taken 1961-07-05
Astronaut Shepard arrives at …
Title Astronaut Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island and is greeted by Grissom
Description Astronaut Alan Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island and is greeted by Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom after the first American suborbital flight. He will participate in a press conference with Grissom and Donald Slayton.
Date Taken 1961-07-05
Bahama Islands as seen from …
Title Bahama Islands as seen from Gemini 7 spacecraft
Description Andros, New Providence and Berry Islands in the Bahama Islands are photographed by Astronaut Frank Borman and James A. Lovell during the 15th revolution of the Gemini 7 mission.
Date Taken 1965-12-05
State of Florida as seen fro …
Title State of Florida as seen from Skylab
Description An oblique view of the State of Florida (26.5N, 81.5W), looking northward up the peninsula, as photographed from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit by one of the Skylab 4 crewmen. This view shows almost the entire state, except the panhandle region. The Bahama Banks area appears in the southeast part of the picture as the light blue water. Andros Island in the Bahamas group is the island in the lower right corner. The Gulfstream flows between Florida and the Bahama Banks. A portion of Cuba is seen in the lower left corner of the picture.
Date Taken 1974-01-10
Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
Title Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
Description Eleuthera Island, (24.5N, 76.0W) Bahamas Island Group, is one of several within the archipelago surrounded by shallow seas, visible here as light blue. Mosaic patterns of sand waves built by sea bottom currents in the shallows stand out in stark contrast to the deep blue of the ocean depths of a thousand feet in the Exuma Sound.
Date Taken 1981-04-14
View of the Columbia's RMS a …
Title View of the Columbia's RMS arm and end effector grasping IECM
Description The North Atlantic Ocean southeast of the Bahamas is in the background as Columbia's remote manipulator system (RMS) arm and end effector grasp a multi-instrument monitor for detecting contaminants. The experiment is called the induced environment contaminant monitor (IECM). Below the IECM the tail of the orbiter can be seen.
Date Taken 1982-07-04
Clouds and Open Ocean near t …
Title Clouds and Open Ocean near the Bahamas
Description Sunglint reflects off the water of the Sargasso Sea, North Atlantic Ocean east of the Bahama Island archipelago. This area is sometimes referred to as "The Bermuda Triangle".
Date Taken 1982-07-04
Tongue of the ocean, Bahamas …
Title Tongue of the ocean, Bahamas Archipelago
Description A portion of the tongue of the ocean (24.0N, 77.0W), and the Bahamas Bank, Bahamas Archipelago. The light blue region is the shalow sea bottom where the Bahama Bank is no more than 30 ft. deep. At the contact between light and dark blue, an underwater shear cliff drops over a mile in depth. The wavey lines of various shades of blue are caused by the differential coral growth relative to the warm/cool water transfer in and out of the tongue.
Date Taken 1982-11-16
Bahama Islands
Title Bahama Islands
Description This beautiful photograph from space shows the contrast between islands, clouds, shallow water and deep water of the Bahamas (25.0N, 76.5E). The Bahama Islands of Nassau (the smaller island) and Eleuthera are at the edge of the Bahama Bank where the water is shallow revealing the bottom in pale blue detail contrasted to the dark depths of the Exuma Sound where the bottom is over a thousand feet deep.
Date Taken 1983-04-09
Florida, Bahama Islands, Cub …
Title Florida, Bahama Islands, Cuba as seen from Gemini 12 spacecraft
Description Florida (south half), Bahama Islands (Andros-Grand Bahamas-Bimini), and Cuba, looking south as seen from Gemini 12 spacecraft on its 15th revolution of the earth.
Date Taken 1966-11-13
Florida Peninsula, Bahama Ba …
Title Florida Peninsula, Bahama Banks
Description The Florida Peninsula (27.0N, 81.0W) is neatly bracketed between the Earth Limb across the Gulf of Mexico and the Bahama Banks in the foreground. Geographic relationships of Cape Canaveral, Lake Okeechobe, the Miami urban complex and the shallow waters of Florida Bay and the Florida Keys are displayed in a single well composed photo.
Date Taken 1989-05-08
Hubble Space Telescope Deplo …
Title Hubble Space Telescope Deploy, Cuba, Bahamas and Gulf of Mexico
Description Hubble Space Telescope Deploy with the entire island of Cuba, Bahamas and Gulf of Mexico in the background (22.0N, 78.0W).
Date Taken 1990-04-29
Sunglint and Florida Peninsu …
Title Sunglint and Florida Peninsula, USA
Description The Gulf coast and the Florida peninsula (30.0N, 81.5W) seen in sunglint. The lakes of central Florida are highlighted in reflected light in this scene. The view extends up along the Georgia and South Carolina Coast and clouds cast shadows in the sunglint. The sunglint off the east coast also highlights shears in the Atlantic related to the Gulf Stream. To the south, Andros Island and the Grand Bahama Bank are visible.
Date Taken 1990-04-29
Thunderstorm, Florida, Baham …
Title Thunderstorm, Florida, Bahamas and Cuba
Description This decaying thunderstorm, seen as the trailing edge of a cloud mass over the Gulf of Mexico and approaching Florida, Bahamas and Cuba (24.0N, 81.0W) has lost much of its force but still dropped a considerable amount of rainfall over most of Cuba and Florida. The storm, remnants of the same front described in scene STS031-77-078, is seen as a thin front stretching northwest to southeast over the Gulf of Mexico just west of Florida.
Date Taken 1990-04-29
Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas
Title Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas
Description This photo shows the complex bottom topography of the Bahama Banks area(24.0N, 77.0W). The majority of the feature (light blue color), where the tide and current sculpted bottom detail may be seen, is shallow water, generally less than three meters deep. However, the Tongue of the Ocean, Deep blue color, is water over 2,000 meters in depth. Andros Island is the largest island in the photograph. _
Date Taken 1991-08-11
Florida, Empty Payload Bay a …
Title Florida, Empty Payload Bay and Earth Limb
Description Central and southern Florida and the Bahamas are seen in silhouette against the backdrop of the Earth Limb in this late afternoon view that highlights the empty Payload Bay. After having deployed the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) much work still remains to be done. The operation of the Space Station Heat Pipe Advanced Radiator Element (SHARE II), an experiment to demonstrate the feasability of microgravity thermal convection radiator.
Date Taken 1991-08-11
Florida and the Bahamas
Title Florida and the Bahamas
Description In this view of the Florida peninsula and the Bahamas (28.5N, 80.0W), the Bahamas are easily identified from orbit because of the vivid blue colors of the shallow Bahama Banks and dark blues of the ocean depths. The Florida peninsula is completely silhoutted by cumulus clouds except for the cloud hole over Lake Okeechobee. The rest of the U.S. Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard is completely obscured by the clouds of an approaching winter front.
Date Taken 1991-12-01
Florida and Bahamas in Sungl …
Title Florida and Bahamas in Sunglint
Description This view is of the Bahamas and Florida (26.5N, 80.0W) looking westward into the sunglint of the setting sun. The Bahama Banks are in the foreground, from left to right, Andros Island (the largest), the Berry Islands and Grand Bahama Island are surrounded by the shallow limestone banks. Bimini is the two small islands between Florida and the Bahamas. The western tip of Cuba is at the edge of the scene.
Date Taken 1992-04-02
Florida, Bahamas, Cuba and G …
Title Florida, Bahamas, Cuba and Gulf Stream, USA
Description This unique photo offers a view of the Florida peninsula, western Bahamas, north central Cuba and the deep blue waters of the Gulf Stream, that hugs the east coast of Florida (27.0N, 82.0W). In addition to being an excellent photograph for showing the geographical relationships between the variety of landforms in this scene, the typical effect of the land-sea breeze is very much in evidence as few clouds over water, cumulus build up over landmass.
Date Taken 1992-08-08
Bahama Banks, Tongue of the …
Title Bahama Banks, Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas
Description Most of the Western Bahama Banks, the Tongue of the Ocean and Andros Island (24.0N, 77.0W) as well as north central Cuba with its fringing reefs can be seen in this one view. The green water over the banks is less than 30 ft. deep but the deep blue of the Tongue is 4000 to 6000 ft. deep. All the sediment on the banks, including the material that forms the islands, is calcium carbonate (lime) precipitated from sea water by animals and plants.
Date Taken 1992-05-16
Bahamas
Title Bahamas
Description The light blue shallow water platforms of the Bahamas, (24.0N, 77.0W) which are separated by very deep dark blue channels make for a striking scene. In the foreground is Andros Island and in the background are the Tongue of the Ocean, the Exuma Islands, Exuma Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. The Bahamas are one of the few regions where calcium carbonate precipitates directly out of the water, as the mineral aragonite, to form the coral reef islands.
Date Taken 1992-11-01
Bahama Banks, Tongue of the …
Title Bahama Banks, Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas
Description Most of the Western Bahama Banks, the Tongue of the Ocean and Andros Island (25.0N, 77.0W) as well as north central Cuba with its fringing reefs can be seen in this one view. The green water over the banks is less than 30 ft. deep but the deep blue of the Tongue is 4000 to 6000 ft. deep. All the sediment on the banks, including the material that forms the islands, is calcium carbonate (lime) precipitated from sea water by animals and plants.
Date Taken 1993-01-19
Florida Peninsula, LDEF Depl …
Title Florida Peninsula, LDEF Deploy-RMS
Description This single scene, taken during the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) satellite deploy, captures the entire Florida Peninsula (27.0N, 85.0W) in a single view. The multi-paneled LDEF satellite, suspended by the RMS, is undergoing final checkout procedures immediately prior to release. As a long term materials testing facility, the LDEF contained material samples in the many surface panels to determine the effects of long term exposure to space. multi-paneled LDEF satellite was deployed 27.0N, 85.0W)
Date Taken 1984-04-13
Astronauts Newman and Walz e …
Title Astronauts Newman and Walz evaluate tools for use on HST servicing mission
Description With the Caribbean Sea and part of the Bahama Islands chain as a backdrop, two STS-51 crewmembers evaluate procedures and gear to be used on the upcoming Hubble Space Telescope (HST)-servicing mission. Sharing the lengthy extravehicular activity in and around Discovery's cargo bay were astronauts James H. Newman (left), and Carl E. Walz, mission specialists.
Date Taken 1993-09-16
Florida and the Bahamas as s …
Title Florida and the Bahamas as seen from STS-58
Description Clouds are seen across central Florida in this photograph which includes the Florida Peninsula, Andros Island of the northern Bahamas and Cuba (lower left). The light blue, shallow bank of the Bahamas contrast with the deeper blue waters of the Florida strait. The city of Miami is obscured by clouds, but one can see the Florida Keys stretching off to the left. Much of the rest of the southeast coast is barely visible under haze.
Date Taken 1993-10-30
STS-65 Earth observation of …
Title STS-65 Earth observation of Bahama Islands with dust pall, taken from OV-102
Description During STS-65 a significant dust pall that originated in western Africa was recorded by a series of low oblique color photographs as it continued its westward trek across the Atlantic Ocean and then the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico area. This particular view captures the northern edge of the dust, positioned just slightly north of the Bahama Islands. This major transport of African dust to the western hemisphere has been recorded periodically by other Shuttle astronauts and earlier Shuttle missions. Scientifically, there is evidence that some of this African dust even reaches the Amazon rainforest and serves as a source of airborne nutrients for rainforest vegetation. This photograph was taken aboard Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102.
Date Taken 1994-07-23
Eleuthera Island, Bahamas se …
Title Eleuthera Island, Bahamas seen from STS-66
Description The striking views provided by the Bahama Islands lend insights into the important problems of limestone (CaCO3) production and transport. This photograph includes the southern part of Eleuthera Island in the northern Bahamas. The hook-shaped island encloses a relatively shallow platform (light blue) which is surrounded by deep water (dark blue). The feathery pattern along the western edge of Eleuthera's platform are sand bars and sand channels created by tidal currents sweeping on and off the platform. The channels serve to funnel large amounts of CaCO3 off the platform and into the deeper water.
Date Taken 1994-11-14
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