ISS040-E-087418 (3 Aug. 2014) --- 09:37:29 GMT
Astronaut Reid Wiseman,Expedition 40 flight engineer,is photographed playing with a yoyo in the Node 2 module.
Image taken during BASS-II flame test session -card 2 - conducted on GMT 203. Burned a 4 mm thick, 1 cm wide acrylic slab at multiple velocities. At high flows, the flame was long and sooty. When the flow was reduced, the flame stabilized. The Burning and Suppression of Solids II (BASS-II) investigation examines the burning and extinction characteristics of a wide variety of fuel samples in microgravity. The BASS-II experiment will guide strategies for materials flammability screening for use in spacecraft as well as provide valuable data on solid fuel burning behavior in microgravity. BASS-II results contribute to the combustion computational models used in the design of fire detection and suppression systems in microgravity and on Earth.
ISS040-E-139619 (10 Sept. 2014) --- In the International Space Station’s Tranquility node, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40 flight engineer, works with the Total Organic Carbon Analyzer (TOCA) while European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (background), flight engineer, gets a workout on the advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED).
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as:Straights of Magellan - Atlantic entrance - Clearish skies. Part of the ISS JEM module External Platform is visible.
ISS041-E-067595 (6 Oct. 2014) --- This moonlit panorama was shot recently with a wide-angle lens by an Expedition 41 crew member aboard the International Space Station, as they looked southwest from a point over Nebraska. The wide-angle lens shows a huge swath of country that stretches from Portland, Oregon (right) to Phoenix, Arizona (left). The largest string of lights is the Ogden-Salt Lake City-Provo area (lower center) in Utah. The Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan regions, and the cities of the central valley of California (Bakersfield to Redding) stretch across the horizon. The green airglow layer always appears in night images. Moonlight shows the red tinge of the space station?s solar arrays top left. Moonlight emphasizes the broader-scale geological zones. Nevada?s short, dark, parallel mountain ranges of the basin and range geological province (center) contrast with the expanses of flat terrain of the Colorado Plateau (left) in Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The near-full moon even reveals the vast dry lake bed known as the Bonneville Salt Flats. The black line of the Sierra Nevada marks the edge of California?s well-lit central valley (directly below the San Francisco Bay area).
ISS040-E-006037 (30 May 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40 flight engineer, floats through the hatch between the Kibo laboratory and the Harmony node of the International Space Station.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Sunset over southern atlantic ocean.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). File lists this as: Africa, Middle East.
ISS040-E-008351 (8 June 2014) --- During a crew member's typical stay time aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, he or she will see thousands of sunsets and sunrises aboard the orbital outpost, which moves at 17,500 miles per hour. Not all of them get photographed and not all of the photographed ones are as scenic as this image, photographed by one of the Expedition 40 crew members on June 8, 2014. The image shows the sun in the center of the blue line of atmosphere on the home planet.
ISS040-E-007123 (4 June 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40 flight engineer, works with the Common Cabin Air Assembly (CCAA) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS041-E-078241 (16 Oct. 2014) --- One of the crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this oblique scene of Hurricane Gonzalo on Oct. 16, 2014. The storm's eye is barely visible just above the center of the frame. Gonzalo hit Bermuda on the following day, as a powerful Category 2 storm, with winds estimated at 110 miles per hour.
ISS040-E-007691 (5 June 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40 flight engineer, removes and replaces the remote power switch controller module in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS041-E-067002 (7 Oct. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 41 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 13-minute spacewalk, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (out of frame), flight engineer, worked outside the space station's Quest airlock relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment.
ISS040-E-008209 (6 June 2014) --- Okavango inland delta in northern Botswana is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station. The great Okavango delta in the Kalahari Desert is illuminated in the sun?s reflection point in this panorama. Using this sun glint technique, crew members can image fine detail of water bodies. Here the bright line of the Okavango River shows the annual summer flood advancing from the well-watered Angolan Highlands (upper margin) to the delta. Then the flood water slowly seeps across the 150 kilometer-long delta, supplying forests and wetlands, finally reaching the fault-bounded lower margin of the delta in the middle of winter. Most of the water of this large river is used up by the forests, or evaporates in the dry air. Only two percent of the river?s water actually exits the delta. The wetland supports high biodiversity in the middle of the otherwise semiarid Kalahari Desert, and is now one of the most famous tourist sites in Africa. This view also shows the small quantity of water in the Boteti River. Okavango water only reaches the dry lake floors (lower right) in the wettest years. Part of one of the station?s solar arrays is visible at right.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Panama and South America.
ISS040-E-068661 (16 July 2014) --- Looking through a window on the International Space Station, the capture of the Orbital Sciences? Cygnus cargo craft by the station?s Canadarm2 is photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member onboard the station. The two spacecraft converged at 6:36 a.m. (EDT) on July 16, 2014. Also visible in this image are the station?s Cupola and the Tranquility node (top). A blue and white part of Earth and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene.
ISS040-E-088937 (5 Aug. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members onboard the International Space Station captured this oblique image of Typhoon Halong at 09:49:01 GMT on Aug. 5, 2014. A 38mm focal length was used.
ISS040-E-018417 (24 June 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (left) and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, both Expedition 40 flight engineers, conduct a session of the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites Zero Robotics (SPHERES ZR) program in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
Earth observation taken by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Aukland.
ISS040-E-123238 (3 Sept. 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40 flight engineer, prepares for a session of the Energy Requirements for Long-Term Spaceflight (ENERGY) experiment in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS040-E-006327 (1 June 2014) --- A portion of International Space Station solar array panels and Earth?s horizon are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the space station.
Night Earth Observations taken by Expedition 41 crewmember. One of a series of time lapse photos.
Astronaut Steve Swanson,Expedition 40 Commander,is photographed working with the Robonauts processing unit (or brain) in the U.S. Laboratory module.
ISS040-E-106243 (25 Aug. 2014) --- This panorama view, photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station, shows the tropical blue waters of the Persian Gulf. Strong north winds often blow in summer, churning up dust from the entire length of the desert surfaces of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys (top left). Dust partly obscures the hundreds of kilometers of Iraq?s light-green agricultural lands along these rivers (left). The Caspian Sea cuts the horizon.
ISS041-E-078255 (16 Oct. 2014) --- One of the crew members aboard the International Space Station took this picture of Hurricane Gonzalo on Oct. 16, 2014. The storm's eye appears in the center of the frame. Gonzalo hit Bermuda on the following day, as a powerful Category 2 storm, with winds estimated at 110 miles per hour.
NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (left),Expedition 40 commander; along with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (upper left), NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov,all three flight engineers,gather around a computer in Node 1 to watch the World Cup finals.
Earth Observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: night, Auroras, long shutters. Part of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) arm is visible.
Earth observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Part of a solar array is visible.
ISS041-E-033463 (24 Sept. 2014) --- SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft is docked to the International Space Station after arriving on Sept. 23 with a load of supplies and equipment for the three crew members currently onboard the orbital outpost and the three who will join them soon.
ISS040-E-068644 (16 July 2014) --- The Orbital Sciences? Cygnus cargo craft (bottom center) is photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station during rendezvous and capture operations. The two spacecraft converged at 6:36 a.m. (EDT) on July 16, 2014. Also visible in this image are the station?s Cupola and the Tranquility node (top) and Canadarm2 (center) along with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the station. Earth?s horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene.
ISS040-E-130230 (9 Sept. 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40 flight engineer, installs a microscope for the Cell Mechanosensing-2 experiment in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. The Japanese experiment, which is conducted in Kibo’s Kobairo rack, seeks to identify gravity sensors in cells that may change the expression of key proteins and genes and allowing muscles to atrophy in microgravity.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Sahara Sand over the Atlantic.
ISS040-E-063578 (15 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, flying some 225 nautical miles above the Caribbean Sea in the early morning hours of July 15, photographed this north-looking panorama that includes parts of Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida, and even runs into several other areas in the southeastern U.S. The long stretch of lights to the left of center frame gives the shape of Miami.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Hurricane Marie. Sent down as Twitter message.
ISS040-E-006093 (31 May 2014) --- With a few explanatory words attached to a message to Earth, Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA sent down this image of a single piece of dice floating in front of one of the windows in the Cupola of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. Wiseman commented, "This one is just for us board game players, table top strategy gamers, (etc.) whose dice collection behaviour borders on hoarding."
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). File lists this as: tropical storm over Atlantic. Docked Soyuz spacecraft is also visible.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: US East Coast, sun glint, Cape Cod, NY, DC, Great Lakes.
ISS041-E-016679 (17 Sept. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station,flying 221 nautical miles above the North Atlantic Ocean, photographed this oblique scene showing a plankton bloom at the lower right edge of the frame. Newfoundland is in upper left.
ISS040-E-016514 (21 June 2014) --- Dust plumes and the Namib Desert coast are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station. Strong, hot winds known as “berg” (mountain) winds are lofting plumes of dust directly out into the Atlantic Ocean in this panoramic image. The southern African equivalent of Santa Ana winds in California, berg winds blow on a few occasions in fall and winter, off all coasts of southern Africa. Other images from the space station have captured these dust plumes. Namibia’s great Sand Sea appears here as a reddish zone along part of the coast (center). The Sand Sea is more than 350 kilometers long, giving a sense of the length of the visible dust plumes. A light-toned sediment plume enters the sea at the mouth of the Orange River (lower left), southern Africa’s largest river.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Chilean volcanos.
ISS041-E-067002 (7 Oct. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 41 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 13-minute spacewalk, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (out of frame), flight engineer, worked outside the space station's Quest airlock relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment.
ISS040-E-139549 (9 Sept. 2014) --- In the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40 crew member, works with the bowling ball-sized satellites known as SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage Reorient Experimental Satellites) to study how liquids behave inside containers in microgravity. The experiment, named SPHERES-Slosh, maneuvers the tiny satellites similar to an actual spacecraft with an externally mounted tank and observes the interaction between the sloshing fluid and the tank/vehicle dynamics.
ISS041-E-016907 (17 Sept. 2014) --- Much of northeastern USA is visible in the bottom of this frame and a large portion of the Great Lakes area is visible near center and top in this oblique photographed taken by one of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the International Space Station n Sept. 17. A 38mm focal length was used to record several pictures in this sequence as the orbital outpost was flying 221 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.
ISS040-E-105768 (23 Aug. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 221 nautical miles, captured this image of Egypt's Nile River and Lake Nasser on Aug. 23, 2014. The Aswan High Dam is to the right of center in the 70mm focal-length image, as the Nile flows southward (to the right in this image) toward Cairo and it?s Mediterranean delta (both out of frame at right). The Red Sea, which runs more or less parallel to the Nile, is out of frame at bottom.
ISS040-E-011004 (13 June 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40 flight engineer, works with samples and hardware for a combustion experiment known as the Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS) in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Australia.
ISS040-E-016423 (20 June 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station recorded this view of the central Pacific Coast area of California on June 20, 2014. Monterey and Monterey Bay and part of the Santa Lucia Mountains are in the lower left corner, and the San Francisco Bay area is near frame center, with part of the view of the area being obstructed by coast-hugging clouds.
ISS040-E-068619 (16 July 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40 flight engineer, waves from a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station in this nighttime image. The station?s Canadarm2 is visible at right. Earth?s horizon and a starry sky provide the backdrop for the scene.
ISS040-E-016422 (20 June 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station used a 28mm focal length to record this long stretch of California's Pacific Coast on June 20, 2014. Guadalupe Island and the surrounding von Karman cloud vortices over the Pacific can be seen just above frame center. San Diego is visible in upper left and the Los Angeles Basin is just to the left of center frame. Much of the Mojave Desert is visible in bottom frame.
Earth Observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: over China.
ISS040-E-045408 (8 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed a series of images of Typhoon Neoguri in the vicinity of Japan on July 7, 2014. This 70mm oblique image featuring the eye was photographed at 21:52:20 GMT.
ISS040-E-113700 (31 Aug. 2014) --- This panorama view, photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station, shows tan-colored dust of a major dust storm obscuring the Persian Gulf and the its northern shoreline. Strong north winds often blow in summer, churning up dust from the entire length of the desert surfaces of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys (top left). Dust partly obscures the hundreds of kilometers of Iraq’s light-green agricultural lands along these rivers (left). A line of thunderstorms is being set off by the Zagros Mountains of Iran (right), with the setting sun casting long shadows from the thunderheads. Space station crews see sixteen sunrises and sunsets every day from low Earth orbit. Here the crew captured dusk in a darkening Iranian landscape (right).
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Eastern half of US, sun glint, Texas, Maryland, Mississippi river, Great Lakes.
Night Earth Observations taken by Expedition 41 crewmember.
Earth observation taken during day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Pacific Northwest Wildfires.
ISS041-E-067002 (7 Oct. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 41 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 13-minute spacewalk, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (out of frame), flight engineer, worked outside the space station's Quest airlock relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment.
ISS040-E-018486 (24 June 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (left) and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, both Expedition 40 flight engineers, conduct a session of the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites Zero Robotics (SPHERES ZR) program in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: general Middle East photos.
Earth observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Typhoon Neoguri.
ISS040-E-086654 (1 Aug. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 40 commander, uses a sound level meter in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS040-E-006271 (31 May 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station captured this panoramic image of South Africa on May 31, 2014. A combination of contrails and a bit of winter mist appears to have formed alphabetic and/or numeric characters in the upper right near the horizon. Sun glint off the south coast is slightly confusing as it is similar in brightness to the west-coast cloud cover, where an Atlantic storm rolls in. The Cape Fold Mountains cross the center of the view, going east from the Cape Town region (clouds obscure the Cape peninsula which normally serves as an icon for this part of Africa). A popular winegrowing region attributable to the Mediterranean climate is the area around Cape Town near lower left. Witwatersrand lies at the top of the picture obscured by the seemingly ever-present winter smoke and smog. The Orange River valley appears as a dark, nearly horizontal line at left.
ISS040-E-086653 (1 Aug. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 40 commander, uses a sound level meter in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS041-E-045043 (27 Sept. 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 41 flight engineer, works with a measurement experiment in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station.
Earth observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Beijing wide angle.
ISS040-E-006699 (2 June 2014) --- European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, Expedition 40 flight engineer, exercises on the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation System (CEVIS) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
ISS040-E-017377 (23 June 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station recorded this image showing several states in the USA and a small part of Mexico, including Baja California, on June 23, 2014. Parts of Nevada are visible in the bottom of the frame. The area in the Mojave Desert where many space shuttle missions successfully ended is visible near the scene's center. The Gulf of Cortez and several hundred miles of the Pacific coast line of Mexico and California are visible in the top portion of the photo. The heavily populated Los Angeles Basin is just above the Mojave site of shuttle landings, with the San Diego area partially obscured by the docked Russian Soyuz vehicle in the foreground. The Salton Sea is just above left center frame.
iss040e104595 (8/22/2014) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alex Gerst is photographed removing the Facility for Absorption and Surface Tension (FASTER) hardware from the European Drawer Rack (EDR) and packing it for return on a future flight for refurbishment. The photo taken in the Columbus modulel aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The Facility for Adsorption and Surface Tension (FASTER) investigates the physical principles which determine the stability of different emulsions, and which compounds can influence this.
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst,Expedition 40 flight engineer,works with samples and hardware for a combustion experiment known as the Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS) in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Tripoli then Athens.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: South America.
ISS040-E-087412 (30 July 2014) --- An area of sun glint near the horizon caught the eye of one of the Expedition 40 crew members as the International Space Station was flying roughly 225 nautical miles above a point in the Pacific Ocean a few hundred miles southeast of the Philippines on July 30, 2014. The view is looking northwestward.
ISS041-E-067002 (7 Oct. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 41 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 13-minute spacewalk, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (out of frame), flight engineer, worked outside the space station's Quest airlock relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment.
ISS040-E-090484 (11 Aug. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40 flight engineer, performs routine in-flight maintenance on the Multi-user Drop Combustion Apparatus (MDCA) inside the Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. The MDCA contains hardware and software to conduct unique droplet combustion experiments in space.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: the Middle East, Israel.
Image taken on card 15 during BASS-II flame test session with reduced O2 partial pressure. Session conducted on GMT 214. The Burning and Suppression of Solids - II (BASS-II) investigation examines the burning and extinction characteristics of a wide variety of fuel samples in microgravity. The BASS-II experiment will guide strategies for materials flammability screening for use in spacecraft as well as provide valuable data on solid fuel burning behavior in microgravity. BASS-II results contribute to the combustion computational models used in the design of fire detection and suppression systems in microgravity and on Earth.
ISS041-E-067002 (7 Oct. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 41 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 13-minute spacewalk, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (out of frame), flight engineer, worked outside the space station's Quest airlock relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Maryland under some T-storms.
ISS040-E-068656 (16 July 2014) --- The Orbital Sciences? Cygnus cargo craft (bottom center) is photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station during rendezvous and capture operations. The two spacecraft converged at 6:36 a.m. (EDT) on July 16, 2014. Also visible in this image are the station?s Cupola and the Tranquility node (top) and Canadarm2 (center) along with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the station. A cloud-covered part of Earth provides the backdrop for the scene.
ISS041-E-033462 (24 Sept. 2014) --- SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft is docked to the International Space Station after arriving on Sept. 23 with a load of supplies and equipment for the three crew members currently onboard the orbital outpost and the three who will join them soon.
Earth observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Beijing wide angle.
ISS040-E-124198 (6 Sept. 2014) --- Puget Sound is partly reflecting the sun in this detailed image taken by an Expedition 40 crew member on the International Space Station. Patterns of boat wakes are prominent in the sun’s partial reflection zone. The difference between the boat wakes in this view relates to the speed of the boat and the particular patterns (of several) that happen to be captured in the specific light reflection angles at the time the image was taken. The land areas show parts of Seattle. The darkest areas with rectangular grids are suburbs richly covered with trees. The broadly gray zones of the central city (bottom center) are brighter where structures are lower, as in the harbor zone (Harbor Island), and darker where the shadows of high-rise buildings downtown cast black shadows. Interstate Highway 5 bisects downtown.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Middle East.
Earth Observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Long exposure night shots. Bangkok - image released by astronaut on Twitter.
ISS040-E-015751 (19 June 2014) --- Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov (red stripes) and Oleg Artemyev, both Expedition 40 flight engineers, participate in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the seven-hour, 23-minute spacewalk Skvortsov and Artemyev completed installation and experiment tasks outside the station’s Russian segment. The Progress 55 spacecraft, currently docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment, is at left.
ISS040-E-125550 (2 Sept. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station captured this image of the Aurora Australis 228 nautical miles above a point in the Indian Ocean half way between southern Africa and southern Australia, near the Tropic of Capricorn on Sept. 2, 2014. The moon is in the upper right corner of the frame.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
ISS041-E-067002 (7 Oct. 2014) --- NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 41 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 13-minute spacewalk, Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (out of frame), flight engineer, worked outside the space station's Quest airlock relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage and installing gear that provides back up power to external robotics equipment.
ISS040-E-050750 (7 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed a series of images of Typhoon Neoguri in the vicinity of Japan and Taiwan on July 7, 2014. This oblique 35mm focal length view was photographed at 07:41:29 GMT.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Panama and South America.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Arabian sea.
ISS040-E-125332 (4 Sept. 2014) --- Palm Jumeirah, protruding off the Persian Gulf Coast of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, is featured in this 800mm photograph, taken by one of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station. The municipality of Dubai is the largest city of the Persian Gulf emirate of the same name, and has built a global reputation for large-scale developments and architectural works. Among the most visible of these developments ? particularly from the perspective of crew members onboard the space station ? are three man-made archipelagos. The two Palm Islands (Palm Jumeirah and Palm Jebel Ali, which is not in this frame) appear as stylized palm trees when viewed from above. The World Islands evoke a rough map of the world from an air- or space-borne perspective. A very small part of the World Islands is seen in upper left corner.
Earth observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: night approach to Singapore.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: the Middle East, Israel.
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst,Expedition 40 flight engineer,installs a microscope for the Cell Mechanosensing-2 experiment in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. The Japanese experiment,which is conducted in Kibos Kobairo rack,seeks to identify gravity sensors in cells that may change the expression of key proteins and genes and allowing muscles to atrophy in microgravity.
Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: United States - possible poor camera settings.