Continental United States by Night | International Space Station
European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and former Expedition 75 flight engineer: "Can you spot Florida and the Keys in this timelapse over the American continent?"
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami and extend in an arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas. The islands lie along the Florida Straits, dividing the Atlantic Ocean to the east from the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and defining one edge of Florida Bay.
The continental United States is the area of the United States that is located in the continent of North America. It includes 49 of the 50 U.S. states (48 are located south of Canada and north of Mexico, known as the "lower 48 states," the other being Alaska) and the District of Columbia, which contains the federal capital, Washington, D.C. The only state that is excluded is Hawaii. It is a state consisting of islands in the Pacific Ocean that are not part of North America but rather, Oceania.
Station Commander: Pyotr Dubrov
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Anna Kikina, Sergey Teteryatnikov
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.
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