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The Great Lakes (Karen Nyberg, NASA astronaut) (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 2013 OP
I'd give my left-you-know-what to spend a day in the ISS! Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #1
heck, I'd giver your left and right you-know-what onethatcares Jun 2013 #4
. Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #5
k&r HappyMe Jun 2013 #2
I think I can see my house! longship Jun 2013 #3
Heh... it took me a few seconds, as well. demmiblue Jun 2013 #8
my new desktop background corkhead Jun 2013 #6
My desktop, too. dmr Jun 2013 #9
I want a Pop Tart and a juice box superpatriotman Jun 2013 #7

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. I think I can see my house!
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 12:39 PM
Jun 2013

Well, I could if there were sufficient resolution.

It's funny what the perspective does to the shapes of the Michigan peninsulas and the Great Lakes. We Michiganders have known them so well, but it took me a few seconds to make them out from this angle.

R&K

demmiblue

(36,855 posts)
8. Heh... it took me a few seconds, as well.
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 01:22 PM
Jun 2013

The first landform that helped me with the orientation of the picture was the thumb (of course).

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