European Panorama (NASA, International Space Station, 01/25/12)

Editor's note: Italy takes a starring role in this beautiful night panorama! Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/

This nighttime panorama of much of Europe was photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station flying approximately 240 miles above the Tyrrhenian Sea on Jan. 25, 2012. Most of the country of Italy is visible running horizontally across the center of the frame, with the night lights of Rome and Naples being visible to the center and right center, respectively. Sardinia, and Corsica are in the lower left quadrant of the photo, and Sicily is at lower right corner. The Adriatic Sea is on the other side of Italy, and beyond it to the east and north can be seen parts of several other European nations.

Image credit: NASA

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  1. ★

    SebastiánRC, MaranzaMax (400.000 visite!!!!), Francesco Littmann - 42, Kooklamou - MA., USA, and 206 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. bob57911 (15 months ago | reply)

    This is Wonderful! What a great shot!

  3. Francesco Littmann - 42 (15 months ago | reply)

    Home sweet home...

  4. Kooklamou - MA., USA (15 months ago | reply)

    Sooooooooooooooo beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. ♫ Lion ♫ (15 months ago | reply)

    Stunning

  6. dodagp (15 months ago | reply)

    It is absolutely fabulous !!!!
    Magical lit shape against the dark,looking like an extravagant necklace !!!!!!!!!

  7. pagòt (15 months ago | reply)

    woow this is my country!!!

  8. 2di7 & titanio44 (15 months ago | reply)

    Home shiny home ...... thanks for the beautiful image

  9. Chris Devers (15 months ago | reply)

    Viva Italia! :-)

  10. CarloAlessio77 (15 months ago | reply)

    Wow!

  11. BlueisCoool (15 months ago | reply)

    Very nice capture - congrats!

  12. Shot 'n' Show (15 months ago | reply)

    Wow wow wow wow wow

  13. goclooney go (15 months ago | reply)

    WOW what a fantastic view ;-))

  14. lucia bianchi (15 months ago | reply)

    magic!

  15. lucia bianchi (15 months ago | reply)

    magic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great Nasa!!! ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  16. Beckaroonie (15 months ago | reply)

    I love these night shots!

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  24. Brian Aston (15 months ago | reply)

    Taken from one hell of a vantage point, nice and im sure i will never see it any other way thanks

  25. Impala74 (15 months ago | reply)

    My island (Sardinia), cool!

  26. Compay Segundo (15 months ago | reply)

    Grazie per aver condiviso questo scatto con noi
    Flickr Italia


    Visto in Flickr Italia

  27. jakanu [deleted] (15 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic!



  28. DarkAngelDay (15 months ago | reply)

    Great

  29. Simpio96 (15 months ago | reply)

    Grazie per aver condiviso questo scatto con noi
    Thank you for sharing your picture with us
    You deserve
    Il Cantico delle Creature (www.fotocantico.info) Award


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  30. ΞSSΞ®®Ξ (15 months ago | reply)

    wonderful!

  31. G.Sprague1 (15 months ago | reply)

    If a astronut takes a photo in outer space does the photo belong to the astronut or NASA?

  32. Elisa Possente [deleted] (15 months ago | reply)

    Grazie per aver condiviso questo scatto con noi
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  33. Chris Devers (15 months ago | reply)


    The photo captions summarize the copyright info (or lack thereof) in the footer:

    "These official NASA photographs are being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photographs. The photographs may not be used in materials, advertisements, products, or promotions that in any way suggest approval or endorsement by NASA. All Images used must be credited. For information on usage rights please visit: www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Ph oto_Guidelin... "

    The page at that URL is pretty clear & to the point, as far as legalese goes. The first paragraph summarizes it well:

    NASA still images; audio files; video; and computer files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format, generally are not copyrighted. You may use NASA imagery, video, audio, and data files used for the rendition of 3-dimensional models for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages.

    It goes on from there, but you get the idea. As "US government works", these photos don't have a copyright claim in the usual sense, so for the most part anyone can use them however they please, but there are some courtesy considerations that come up that the rest of the document gets into: don't use the NASA logo, don't use images with people in them [not really a problem for the images that NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center posts], don't use a photo commercially in a way that implies NASA is endorsing the product or service in question, etc etc.

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  42. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (15 months ago | reply)

    [www.flickr.com/photo s/7962103@N02] Wow, thank you all, very much, for these nice comments!

    Viva Italia, indeed. :) She's a beautiful jewel in the night! (Like Doda says in her comment...)

    Yes! Exactly -- a beautiful string of jewels in the night!

    Agreed! These are just so beautiful -- hope no one gets tired of us posting them...

    You're so right -- it changes the perspective so much from a map or an atlas.

    Chris is on the ball with this one. Again. :)

  43. © Montse ★;-)) (15 months ago | reply)

    Plantéatelo así !!!

    Hoy puede ser un gran día y mañana también.
    SUBE TU FOTO Y DISFRUTA. YO LO HICE VIENDOLA !

  44. pauline.kehoe (15 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful capture.

  45. ma.ri_na (15 months ago | reply)

    Grazie per aver condiviso questo scatto con noi
    Thank you for sharing your picture with us
    You deserve
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  46. Arts'moonika (Ø) (15 months ago | reply)

    Ils pourraient veiller à la dépense les Romains ! ;-))
    Superbe image.

  47. xiaomeisun ( I am back online ☺) (15 months ago | reply)

    Grazie per aver condiviso questo scatto con noi
    Thank you for sharing your picture with us.


  48. maurobass68 (15 months ago | reply)

    CHE SPETTACOLO, fantastica!!!!
    C'è anche Jesi!!!! Grazie per il tributo!!!!
    Come si sta lassù???

  49. ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ [deleted] (14 months ago | reply)

    excellent

  50. studiodobs (14 months ago | reply)

    Lights and stars : seen from above, at least, the World is beautiful ...

  51. studiodobs (14 months ago | reply)

    Grazie per aver condiviso questo scatto con noi
    Thank you for sharing your picture with us.



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  52. LTCE (14 months ago | reply)

    Nice!

  53. synapsenkitzler (14 months ago | reply)

    fantastic

  54. atiredmachine (14 months ago | reply)

    terrifying

  55. www.thetoofargone.com (14 months ago | reply)

    WOW absolutely FANTASTIC .....I need to be able to get up there and see this with my own eyes .....I have always felt like I shoudl be and need to be much more involved and a part of the exploration of our Galaxy! I would do whatever it took and whatever I had to, to get up there.....I am a super fantastic chef and would love nothing more to be able to prepare the foods for our Astronauts and then be able to be a part of a mission to be able to take care our Heros and make sure that they are fed well and be their personal Chef and Nutritionist !

  56. michelecolucciello (14 months ago | reply)

    ITALIA by night!

  57. fra0085 (13 months ago | reply)

    mi potete dire dve posso prendere e salvare questa foto................

  58. coladome (13 months ago | reply)

    che meraviglia

  59. Io, Marina OFF/ON (12 months ago | reply)

    Una delle foto più spettacolari.....

  60. ► La.Ra. ◄ (12 months ago | reply)

    Wow... magnifica!!

  61. F. Fausta (12 months ago | reply)

    Thanks for this wonderful image!

  62. laurahnewton@btinternet.com (11 months ago | reply)

    Wonderful

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