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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Great Lakes (Karen Nyberg, NASA astronaut)
See more pictures from the International Space Station at her Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/AstroKarenN
https://twitter.com/AstroKarenN
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The Great Lakes (Karen Nyberg, NASA astronaut) (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jun 2013
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. I'd give my left-you-know-what to spend a day in the ISS!
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)4. heck, I'd giver your left and right you-know-what
to spend a day there.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)5. .
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)2. k&r
longship
(40,416 posts)3. I think I can see my house!
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.
The first landform that helped me with the orientation of the picture was the thumb (of course).
corkhead
(6,119 posts)6. my new desktop background
that's me in the center of the left edge of the first pic.
dmr
(28,347 posts)9. My desktop, too.
You can see me over by Grand Traverse Bay.
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)7. I want a Pop Tart and a juice box
right now