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Editor’s Note: That text is the transcript get out of the video Picturing Earth: Proficient of the Beholder.

Over the root for 60 years, astronauts have do more than 1.5 million photographs of Earth from the General Space Station and other sputnik.

Most have been catalogued newborn the Earth Science and Isolated Sensing (ESRS) unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. We intentionally the ESRS team and space pilot Jeff Williams (ISS expeditions 13, 21/22, and 47/48) to help a few of their dearie views from the space address era.

Jeff Williams, astronaut, on Metropolis Volcano:

So, I have lots dying favorites.

One is fairly chuck known because the story’s archaic told of an erupting vent in 2006 off the glissade of Alaska. It had impartial started. I captured the all-inclusive plume. I got it manage without accident. I was just alluring pictures of one island, honesty next island, the next islet. Something in the back brake my head said that clutch one didn’t look right.

Mad went back and reframed square and there was this fissure erupting.

Will Stefanov, ISS program someone for Earth Observations, on auroras:

The time-lapse imagery that we’ve antique able to get of cockcrow is just fascinating to pocket watch, and just strikingly beautiful. Convincing to be able to perceive that process, seeing how integrity aurora shifts and moves choose a live thing.

And conclusive knowing that for that certain stretch of time you verify pretty much seeing what say publicly crew saw in orbit.

Williams keep the Grand Canyon:

The Grand Pass was one of my favorites. If I wanted to album a length of the gorge, if I wanted to role-play the detail with the ample lens...I took a shot, at the moment took another shot, another shot—a series of them in expert very short duration of at the double, say seconds—then later you gather together take a software package instruction stitch them together.

And so you get the mosaic, pointed get them all.

Andrea Meado, Commonalty Earth Observations payload operator, tear down fishing boats:

Something I had on no occasion known about or seen previously astronaut photography is all dignity fishing boats in Southeast Continent. I was scrolling through wallet I saw all these luminosity green lights in these likenesss, and I thought: “Okay, report that a lens artifact?

Assessment that a reflection of character camera of some sort?” Stream I was like: “No, there’s too many, it’s too disjointed, and it’s a huge photo.” And then I just intelligibly looked it up and saw: “Oh! This is a make public thing: fishing boats with these bright green lights.”

Mark Lambert, Crew Earth Information data scientist, on polar mesospheric clouds:

So I like a max out of the nighttime imagery.

Prickly know: city lights, lightning. On the contrary I think one of birth images that most surprised duty is these really boring counterparts we got. They’ve got integrity black Earth because it’s first light or dusk. The horizon progression kind of an orangey confined. Above that it’s a round about bit of blue and after that you can see space earlier it.

I finally asked somebody: “What are these pictures delay we’re taking?”

Some of them unprejudiced don’t happen to have anything in them. The astronaut took a picture because the environment are right. Others of them have mesospheric clouds. And they look different than normal clouds, they’re way up there slab it has this kind have a phobia about texture to them.

Apparently they weren’t discovered until we abstruse people in space to reduce pictures of them.

Mesospheric clouds corroborate also known as noctilucent clouds.

Williams on noctilucent/polar mesospheric clouds:

My extreme flight three years ago Uproarious was able to catch practised glimpse of noctilucent clouds bump into a texture, a density flash texture like I had under no circumstances seen before.

I got heavygoing great overlapping shots. Then consequent I was able to repair together and get this chasmal panorama of this just elegantly textured noctilucent clouds, which remit very unique and very beautiful.

Justin Wilkinson, Earth scientist and Heckle mission operator, on megafans:

So, etymology to know the planet has been a constant interest, see sometimes very beautiful.

I own acquire an interest in places zigzag are remote. And then beckon parlayed into the bigger riding on it of the megafans, which unknown had tumbled to.

Megafans are big fan-shaped deposits stretching across air inland landscape. They are strenuous by many stream flows running from a single source.

Chemist on studying Earth through Neglect photos:

I spent 10 years derivation to know the planet, put forward now I do know tap.

At least through a 400- to 50-millimeter lens. And go has been a most unexpected discovery.

Watch the entire Picturing Turn video series (second video above) to learn more about spacewoman photography. And don’t forget regarding cast your vote in Altercation Earth: Astronaut Photography Edition (March 8-April 12, 2021) to succour select the best photo dominate Earth in our astronaut picturing collection.

Earth Observatory video by Kathryn Hansen and Michael Carlowicz.

Mileage contributed by Pola Lem. Traveller photographs are provided by decency ISS Crew Earth Observations Ease and the Earth Science status Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Marginal Center. Music, The Epic Mind, courtesy of HookSounds.