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Alborz Mountains in Moonligh
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Alborz Mountains in Moonlight |
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On January 25th, light from a first quarter Moon illuminated this dreamlike [ http://www.dreamview.net/dv/new/ browse.asp?cat=NightSky&page=1 ] landscape looking across the rugged, snow-covered peaks of the Alborz Mountain Range [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alborz ] in northern Iran. The stunning sky is filled with stars, including the yellow-tinged Betelgeuse [ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/betelgeuse.html ] at the shoulder of Orion [ http://www.gb.nrao.edu/~rmaddale/Education/OrionTourCenter/ optical.html ]. Sirius [ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sirius.html ], alpha star of Canis Major [ http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/cma/index.html ] and the brightest star in planet Earth's night [ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/bright.html ], stands above and left of picture center. The eerie glow along the Haraz valley in the foreground is light from cars traveling a highway leading from Tehran to the Caspian Sea [ http://www.google.com/ maps?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=6&ll=35.639441,51.987305&spn=10.706691,10.371094&t=k ]. |
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ISS010-E-13393
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2005-01-15 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS010&roll=E&frame=13393 ISS010-E-13393 was acquired January 15, 2005 with a Kodak 760C digital camera with a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program 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 eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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ISS010-E-13393 |
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International Space Station Imagery |
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