View from Above

The striking turquoise of the Bahamas stands out amid more muted ocean shades. These aquamarine waters were even visible on moonlit nights.

 (NASA/National Geographic)

A crescent moon. One of the experiments I performed in space was appropriately named "Moon" — I took a series of photographs of the moon to calibrate navigation sensors on NASA's Orion capsule. —

Terry Virts  (NASA/National Geographic)

One of my absolute favorite pictures I took in space —آ the aurora borealis over the U.K. The northern lights were always in the distance while the southern lights were usually much closer to our orbit. — Terry Virts  (NASA/National Geographic)

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