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    There's a dragon chasing us!

    Credit: ESA/NASA

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    1. DensityPics 13 months ago | reply

      Oei, erg mooi!

    2. riaspetter 13 months ago | reply

      Ja, het lijkt er wel op. Maar waar is dit???

    3. Debora.V 13 months ago | reply

      En vandaag ga je hem vangen! Succes!!!

    4. dietmut 13 months ago | reply

      fantastisch Andrë

    5. Jacques Corneille (on/off) 13 months ago | reply

      Het lijkt Star Trek wel...:-))

    6. LazySamurai 13 months ago | reply

      Wow, dit lijkt wel een poel van kwik! Verdorie wat is de natuur toch mooi soms.

    7. Jolanda Da Thesta 13 months ago | reply

      letterlijk en figuurlijk en jij moet hem aankoppelen andre ....toch???

    8. goudvinkie 13 months ago | reply

      Dat moet extra geluk gaan brengen in 't jaar van de "(sea)-dragon"..
      Succes voor jullie allemaal daarboven!

    9. dirk.jan 13 months ago | reply

      Bijzonder !

    10. Dirk Blij 13 months ago | reply

      Geweldig

    11. Jaap de Graaff 13 months ago | reply

      The dragon arrived, so I understand, and it doesn't spit fire, but eats trash.... :)

    12. sydandsaskia 13 months ago | reply

      Very interesting image. Thanks for the info. I looked it up on Google Maps and your right, this angle is truly more "artistic".

    13. Lucyver 13 months ago | reply

      Dát is apart.
      Thanks pc0101 fot the info!

    14. thebadastronomer 13 months ago | reply

      I'm pretty sure this is actually Lake Rason in Australia, not Puarun in Peru...

      I looked at Lake Puarun using Google maps, and had a hard time matching up the features. They look similar, certainly! But there were too many discrepancies.

      At the time the photo was taken, ISS was over Australia! So I looked around western Australia, and found Lake Rason (maps.google.com/?ll=-28.760436,124.332275&spn=0.96912...) and that's a pretty clear match (even though it's upside-down compared to Andre's picture).

    15. pc0101 13 months ago | reply

      Dear Phil, when I first saw this pic I immediately guessed: looks like Australia. What has puzzled me then was the time of exposure as given in the EXIF file: May 23, 5.58 am BST (= British Summer Time), which time is due to the posting via the European branch of flickr. That would be 4.58 am GMT. Obviously, it turns out that this time zone indication is wrong. Taking it as 5.58 am GMT you really have the ISS at 28.58 S, 122.8 E, which is Western Australia. No doubt, that this is Lake Rason, named after the 7th Premier of Western Australia, Sir Hector Rason (1858 - 1927; in office 1905/06).
      It's a salt lake, where permanent evaporation in the heat creates these islands in the lake that disappear after (rare) heavy rainfalls. The lake has no outflow which would remove the salts dissolved from the minerals in the soil and this leads to a gradual increase in salinity. Water with a high content of salt is of such a silvery color, even the Google sat view (from almost overhead) shows that characteristic color.

    16. Chakib1971 13 months ago | reply

      Even flink op het gas trappen@@@

    17. Epidemiac 13 months ago | reply

      Thank you for sharing our beautiful world with us. You have our immense gratitude. :)

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