AstrOnaut looks down at earth

Pardeep

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[FONT=garamond, serif]Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson realises there's no place like home as she peers down at Earth from the highest vantage point possible - space.
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[FONT=garamond, serif]Staring out of the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes in the planet in all its wonderful glory.
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[FONT=garamond, serif]Orbiting our planet about 217 miles i[, the ISS is high enough so that the Earth's horizon appears clearly curved.[/FONT]
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[FONT=garamond, serif]Homesick: Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson peers down at Earth from her vantage point of around 350 kilometres above our planet[/FONT]
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[FONT=garamond, serif]A night-time photograph made by a crew member on the International Space Station Expedition shows a view of Sicily and the 'boot' of Italy[/FONT]
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[FONT=garamond, serif]Astronaut Dyson's windows show some of Earth's complex clouds, in white, and life-giving atmosphere and oceans, in blue.
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[FONT=garamond, serif]The space station orbits the Earth about once every 90 minutes and it is not difficult for people living below to spot it in the sky if they look carefully.[/FONT]
[FONT=garamond, serif]The ISS can frequently be seen as a bright point of light drifting overhead just after sunset.
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[FONT=garamond, serif]In fact, telescopes can even resolve the overall structure of the space station.
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[FONT=garamond, serif]The above image was taken in late September from the ISS's Cupola window bay.[/FONT]
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[FONT=garamond, serif]This dazzling image shows the bright lights of Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast as well as the Nile River[/FONT]

 
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