Space Station Science Highlights: Week of Mar 19, 2018
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of southern Scandinavia just before midnight on April 3, 2015. Prominent features include a green aurora to the north, the blackness of the Baltic Sea (lower right), and clouds (top right) and snow (in Norway) illuminated by the full Moon.
Media Credit: NASA
Last week, astronauts onboard the International Space Station welcomed three new crew members who are certain to increase the amount of research happening in space. Among the events this week was the deployment of a virtual-reality camera being used to film a National Geographic educational video. The camera launched to the ISSInternational Space Station National Lab in November 2017 and is helping to tell the story of Earth from the unique vantage point of space.