![]() ![]() ![]() I spent 10 years getting to know the planet, and now I do know it. ![]() Wilkinson on studying Earth through ISS photos: They are built by many stream flows emanating from a single source. Megafans are large fan-shaped deposits stretching across an inland landscape. And then it parlayed into the bigger issue of the megafans, which nobody had tumbled to. I have an interest in places that are remote. So, getting to know the planet has been a constant interest, and sometimes very beautiful. Justin Wilkinson, Earth scientist and ISS mission operator, on megafans: Then later I was able to stitch together and get this wide panorama of this just richly textured noctilucent clouds, which are very unique and very beautiful. My last flight three years ago I was able to catch a glimpse of noctilucent clouds with a texture, a density of texture like I had never seen before. Williams on noctilucent/polar mesospheric clouds: Mesospheric clouds are also known as noctilucent clouds. Apparently they weren’t discovered until we had people in space to take pictures of them. And they look different than normal clouds, they’re way up there and it has this kind of texture to them. The astronaut took a picture because the conditions are right. Some of them just don’t happen to have anything in them. I finally asked somebody: “What are these pictures that we’re taking?” Above that it’s a little bit of blue and then you can see space above it. They’ve got the black Earth because it’s dawn or dusk. But I think one of the images that most surprised me is these really boring images we got. So I like a lot of the nighttime imagery. Mark Lambert, Crew Earth Observations data scientist, on polar mesospheric clouds: I was scrolling through and I saw all these bright green lights in these photos, and I thought: “Okay, is that a lens artifact? Is that a reflection of the camera of some sort?” And I was like: “No, there’s too many, it’s too scattered, and it’s a huge photo.” And then I just simply looked it up and saw: “Oh! This is a known thing: fishing boats with these bright green lights.” Something I had never known about or seen before astronaut photography is all the fishing boats in Southeast Asia. And then you get the mosaic, you get them all.Īndrea Meado, Crew Earth Observations payload operator, on fishing boats: #NASA PICTURE OF THE DAY PANORAMIC SOFTWARE#If I wanted to film a length of the canyon, if I wanted to get the detail with the big lens.I took a shot, immediately took another shot, another shot-a series of them in a very short duration of time, say seconds-then later you can take a software package and stitch them together. The Grand Canyon was one of my favorites. And just knowing that for that particular stretch of time you are pretty much seeing what the crew saw in orbit. Just to be able to see that process, seeing how the aurora shifts and moves like a live thing. The time-lapse imagery that we’ve been able to get of aurora is just fascinating to watch, and just strikingly beautiful. Will Stefanov, ISS program scientist for Earth Observations, on auroras: I went back and reframed it and there was this volcano erupting. Something in the back of my head said that last one didn’t look right. I was just taking pictures of one island, the next island, the next island. One is fairly well known because the story’s been told of an erupting volcano in 2006 off the coast of Alaska. Jeff Williams, astronaut, on Cleveland Volcano: We asked the ESRS team and astronaut Jeff Williams (ISS expeditions 13, 21/22, and 47/48) to share a few of their favorite views from the space station era. Most have been catalogued by the Earth Science and Remote Sensing (ESRS) unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Over the past 60 years, astronauts have shot more than 1.5 million photographs of Earth from the International Space Station and other spacecraft. Editor’s Note: This text is the transcript from the video Picturing Earth: Eye of the Beholder. ![]()
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