Earth Orbital Views | International Space Station

Earth Orbital Views | International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is pictured docked to the Prichal module as the International Space Station orbited 264 miles above French Polynesia, France's oveseas collectivity of over 100 islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Soyuz launched NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia to the orbital outpost on April 8.

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is pictured docked to the Prichal module as the International Space Station orbited 269 miles above the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa. The Soyuz launched NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia to the orbital outpost on April 8.

Egypt's Nile Delta region, home to about 39 million people and where the Nile, Africa's longest river, drains into the Mediterranean Sea, is pictured from the International Space Station at 11:01 p.m. local time as it orbited 261 miles above.

The Moon's light is refracted by the Earth's atmosphere giving it a spheroid shape in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited into a sunset 264 miles above the border between Bolivia and Brazil in South America.

The Sun's glint beams off one of the many rivers that snake throughout South America's fertile, low grasslands region, also known as the Pampas. The International Space Station was orbiting 261 miles above the border of Paraguay and Argentina at the time of this photograph.

This is the one-millionth image taken during the Expedition 72 mission aboard the International Space Station. The clouds covering the island nation of Cuba hide its capital and largest city Havana (far left) on the Florida Strait. To the south are the marshlands and forests of Cuba's Zapata Swamp that leads to the Caribbean Sea. NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers took this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Bahamas.

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA/JSC/Don Pettit
Image Dates: Dec. 2024-April 2025, 2025

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