Earth Observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as: Afterglow on clouds. Also sent as Twitter message: Sun highlights a storm from underneath.

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ISS040-E-016324 (20 June 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station recorded this oblique panorama of the Strait of Gibraltar, showing parts of Morocco and Spain, on June 20, 2014.

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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.

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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.

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ISS040-E-007078 (3 June 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station recorded this still image of much of New Zealand on June 3, 2014. Clouds cover the Tasman Sea at top. South Island is at left and North Island, at right. The orbital outpost was approximately 228 nautical miles above the South Pacific Ocean when the photograph was taken.

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ISS040-E-089379 (7 Aug. 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station, from an altitude of 221 nautical miles, photographed this image of Typhoon Halong at 08:02:41 GMT on Aug. 7, 2014. The orbital outpost was flying above a point on Earth located at 15.8 degrees north latitude and 142.4 degrees east longitude. One of the solar panels of the orbital outpost is seen on the left side of the scene.

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ISS040-E-030615 (2 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, some 227 nautical miles above Earth, photographed this image of Tropical Storm Arthur in the afternoon of July 2, 2014. Arthur was churning in Atlantic waters off the coast of Florida and slowly moving northward at the time the photo was taken. The robotic arm of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System or Canadarm2 is seen at upper right.

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ISS040-E-033303 (3 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this image from an altitude of 225 nautical miles, featuring the Ionian Sea (top), Crete (southernmost island at left), the Cyclades (bottom center) and much of Greece's land mass (right, or northernmost part of the frame).

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ISS040-E-074022 (22 July 2014) --- Because of city lights, several points in the mid-east along the Eastern Mediterranean Sea coast and a bit inland can be delineated in this early morning view photographed by one of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station on July 22, 2014. A portion of the Mediterranean Sea is at the bottom of this image. The orbital outpost was flying at an altitude of approximately 223 nautical miles above a point the coordinates of which are 29.8 degrees north latitude and 32.3 degrees east longitude (near the Suez Canal) when the image was exposed, using an 85mm lens.

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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.

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ISS040-E-010458 (12 June 2014) --- Early morning of June 12, one of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station took this picture of Brazil, site of the 2014 World Cup soccer matches, which start this week. Sao Paulo is the large cluster of night lights near the coast on the right side of the frame. Rio de Janeiro is the coastal city to the left of Sao Paulo. Belo Horizonte is the cluster of lights near frame center.

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ISS040-E-080962 (26 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this oblique night image of almost the entire countries of Italy and Sicily on July 26, 2014.

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