Europe and its nightlights, seen from the ISS

    Europe at night, captured by ESA astronaut André Kuipers onboard the ISS. In shot is the Soyuz TMA-03M module that carried André to the ISS in December 2011, and a Russian Progress freighter.

    André is onboard the ISS as part of ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe. For further information on the mission, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html

    Credits: ESA/NASA

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    1. ★

      space the final frontier, kazuhito, giuvine eroA, Dave_Barlow, and 566 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Unlucky_Alf [deleted] (13 months ago | reply)

      Great shot.

    3. Sergio de Malibran (13 months ago | reply)

      So little and vulnerable...

    4. Macskafaraok (13 months ago | reply)

      wow.

    5. B A I A N (13 months ago | reply)

      woooow

    6. ~ MXXM (13 months ago | reply)

      Speechless..

    7. T.C.B. (13 months ago | reply)

      breathtaking!

    8. النار السوداء (13 months ago | reply)

      This is GREATNESS!

    9. Vortexmind (13 months ago | reply)

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    10. enbiiii (13 months ago | reply)

      not like an every day's photo. amazing.

    11. frank massa (13 months ago | reply)

      thebest

    12. frank massa (13 months ago | reply)

      ok

    13. frank massa (13 months ago | reply)

      thatisok

    14. frank massa (13 months ago | reply)

      wow

    15. frank massa (13 months ago | reply)

      why

    16. kapablankayoungr (13 months ago | reply)

      Distant things human, are mostly visible in Cosmos!
      Kapablankayong

    17. dmunroephoto (13 months ago | reply)

      Well that makes every photo I've ever taken look like crap. Thanks. :-)

    18. tantalizingenigma (13 months ago | reply)

      That is amazing.

    19. davetefft (13 months ago | reply)

      This is seriously the coolest photo ever

    20. xopherlance (13 months ago | reply)

      Stunning in so many ways, this is the best photo I've seen in a long time. Thank you so much for posting it!

    21. Night butterflY - :) (13 months ago | reply)

      amazing...

    22. tyler_time (13 months ago | reply)

      Good shot ruined by a humongous piece of space debris. Really, the things they put on the first page, harumph.

    23. realvision (13 months ago | reply)

      Nice !

    24. Corinneski (13 months ago | reply)

      Good to see you are all making good use of your time. Fabulous picture even if you can't please all the people all of the time.

    25. romantic1994 (13 months ago | reply)

      signaturekitchen.blogspot.com/2012/04/chiec-g iuong-ngu-la...

      wonderful

    26. MichaelChuck (13 months ago | reply)

      Wow, indeed!

    27. Éothain (13 months ago | reply)

      Great!

    28. DarkAngelDay (13 months ago | reply)

      Great shot!

    29. DMuys (13 months ago | reply)

      What are we looking at? Great pic!

    30. shinnygogo (13 months ago | reply)

      this is major tom to ground control....

    31. vladimir DGama (13 months ago | reply)

      Europe and its nightlights, seen from the ISS it very beautiful to see the spark in orbit from Vladimir Dgama

    32. dr_loplop (13 months ago | reply)

      The bright patch on the right is London, I think. The one in the middle, Paris.

    33. Tobymutz (13 months ago | reply)

      that looks so awesome!

    34. Shjn single :) (13 months ago | reply)

      WTF

    35. MassiveToole (13 months ago | reply)

      Coooool!!

    36. I Swampy @ Allan Marsh Photography (13 months ago | reply)

      guess you can only shoot that that you can see ,great shot ,gizza go i can do that

    37. ctefanos.t (13 months ago | reply)

      CCCP

    38. europeanspaceagency (13 months ago | reply)

      West is to the top of this image, with the British Isles to the right of frame. The reason that the Soyuz and Progress modules seem so bright is that the ISS is still in sunlight, whereas in Europe below it is night.

    39. James Trickey (13 months ago | reply)

      This is utterly incredible!

    40. Ken-Zan (13 months ago | reply)

      Great view !!!!!!!!!

    41. petrov19 (13 months ago | reply)

      OMG

    42. djestrada19 (13 months ago | reply)

      simply amazing....

    43. Patri-Wang (13 months ago | reply)

      amazing !!!

    44. thebeercanmuseum (13 months ago | reply)

      So gorgeous. What an image.....mindboggling!

    45. Coffeemug13 (13 months ago | reply)

      Impressive....combines the future and the past

    46. Jelltex (13 months ago | reply)

      Just had to come back and so how wonderful this series of shot are; well worth of being a subject of the Flickr Blog.

    47. horny_lady (13 months ago | reply)

      nice

    48. binu asheni rathnayake (13 months ago | reply)

      WOW

    49. Fresh Light (4 months ago | reply)

      paradise shot

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