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A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station - 1 Nov

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:22 am
by NWCOTTERILL
Great picture, but what are the surface features please? Whats the huge expanse of water out there?

//NWC

Today's photo

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:01 pm
by boggled
:lol:

You took the words right out of my mouth !

{although apparently not speechless yet}!

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:39 pm
by Aqua
Here comes lunch!

Good question! My first quess was Southern Calif.? Kind of looks like a dry lake bed somewhere? or a Ground fog?

Second guess is somewhere's over Asia. Russian ground controllers like to have the ISS overhead during their part of the docking sequence?

Surface Features

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:50 pm
by zorbital
The large lake in the photograph would be the Aral Sea, in Central Asia.
Wikipedia has a good article about the lake, and its rapid disappearance.

This picture was taken over Russia or Kazakhstan.

so what is the long straight grey thing to the right of lake

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:13 pm
by mynameisben
i thought a major highway or the great wall of china but im not sure, anyone?