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Last night after dinner it was pitch-black out of the Cupola a few min before and then this #Futura42
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This image was taken by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from the International Space Station. She commented: “Forgot where I took this picture. Very distinct pretty lines of light – looks familiar to anyone? #HelpRequired”
Astronauts can set their cameras to take pictures automatically while they work on experiments, so they do not always know themselves – and computer programmes cannot help.
Helping astronauts find what they photographed can be fun but it also helps researchers investigating light pollution – unnecessary lights that shine upwards instead of guiding our way at night.
A large database of pictures of cities at night taken from above offers a wealth of information if correctly identified. Researchers can chart the development of street lighting over time and compare it with other sources of information such as energy consumption or populations of night animals.
Find out how you can help and improve your geography knowledge with the Cities at Night project.
This image has been identified as Damman in Saudi Arabia. The King Abdulaziz Seaport extending into the Perisan Gulf top-right is a distinctive clue.
Follow Samantha for more wonderful images of Earth and space via samanthacristoforetti.esa.int
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
"Finally seeing some of those beautiful atolls in the Pacific with my own eyes!" - ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
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"Follow the sunglint with me: on the Atlantic coast of South America, it brings this delta out of the darkness." - ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti finds her feet on the International Space Station.
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"I feel we’re navigating on a black sea sprinkled with stars and the Earth with its moving clouds is the sky." - ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
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"Thanks to Terry and Butch for organizing a #Thanksgiving dinner for us! So many treats and good friends." - ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
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Expedition 42 Space Flight Awareness poster.
Featuring (from left to right):
Terry Virts and Anton Shkaplerov as Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Aleksandr Samokutyayev as Humma Kavula.
Barry "Butch" Wilmore as Arthur Dent.
Elena Serova as Ford Prefect.
Samantha Cristoforetti as Trillian.
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Expedition 42 crewmembers, from left: Russian cosmonaut Elena Serova, NASA commander Barry Wilmore, cosmonauts Alexander Samoukutyaev, Anton Shkaplerov, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
Alexander, Elena and Barry left Earth on 25 September from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the other trio will follow on 23 November.
Each three-person crew will spend around six months on the International Space Station. Samantha’s mission is named Futura after a competition was run in her home country, Italy.
Follow Samantha via samanthacristoforetti.esa.int
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 21:01 GMT/22:01 CET on 23 November 2014 with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her crewmates to the weightless research centre where they will live and work for five months.
With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 23 November 2014 with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her crewmates to the weightless research centre where they will live and work for five months.
With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Using the vacuum cleaner to clean out the ventilation grids in our crew quarters. - ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
Credits: ESA/NASA
Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft, Expedition 42/43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti, (center), affixes a decal of the ESA logo of her mission to the cabin wall next to the Soyuz crew decal Nov. 11 in a traditional activity en route to her launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Looking on are her crewmates, NASA’s Terry Virts (left) and Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right). The trio are preparing for their launch on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft from Baikonur on Nov. 24, Kazakh time, for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA/Victor Ivanov
Expedition 42/43 prime crew members Terry Virts of NASA, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov, and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during the press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 22 November, 2014.
The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled on 23 November at 21:01 GMT (22:01 CET).
Samantha was assigned to the Futura mission more than two years ago and has travelled the world training on all the elements of the most complex machine ever built: the International Space Station. She learnt how to control the Station’s robotic arms, how to handle any emergency and how to perform all the scientific experiments she will run for the scientists on Earth.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
"For breakfast today: black coffee, rehydrated scrambled eggs and dehydrated peaches! Not bad at all!" - ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 23 November 2014 with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her crewmates to the weightless research centre where they will live and work for five months.
With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 23 November 2014 with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her crewmates to the weightless research centre where they will live and work for five months.
With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 crewmember Samantha Cristoforetti climbs into the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft during a “fit check” dress rehearsal Nov. 12. Cristoforetti, Terry Virts of NASA and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time, from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA/Victor Ivanov
The Japanese robotic arm remained extended over the weekend after deployment of SpinSat satellite on 28 November 2014.
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti dressed in her Russian Sokol suit, ready for launch to the International Space Station, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.
With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Expedition 42/43 prime crew members Terry Virts of NASA, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov, and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during the press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 22 November, 2014.
The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled on 23 November at 21:01 GMT (22:01 CET).
Samantha was assigned to the Futura mission more than two years ago and has travelled the world training on all the elements of the most complex machine ever built: the International Space Station. She learnt how to control the Station’s robotic arms, how to handle any emergency and how to perform all the scientific experiments she will run for the scientists on Earth.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Terry Virts of NASA and Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov greeting audience at the launch pad, just before entering elevator transporting the crew up to the top of the Soyuz rocket, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 crewmembers Terry Virts of NASA (left), Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures Nov. 12 in front of the Soyuz booster to which their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft will be mated as part of their “fit check” dress rehearsal. The trio will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time, from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA/Victor Ivanov
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is seen at the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch of Expedition 42/43 to the International Space Station in Baikonur, on 22 November, 2014, at Baikonour.
The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled on 23 November at 21:01 GMT (22:01 CET).
Samantha was assigned to the Futura mission more than two years ago and has travelled the world training on all the elements of the most complex machine ever built: the International Space Station. She learnt how to control the Station’s robotic arms, how to handle any emergency and how to perform all the scientific experiments she will run for the scientists on Earth.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during a simulation inside the full-scale mockup of the Soyuz capsule, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, on 14 October 2014.
Samantha Cristoforetti is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the ISS, scheduled for November 2014 and as part of Expedition 42/43.
Credit:ESA–S. Corvaja
Oleg Ostapenko, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), shakes hands with Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti as she and crewmates Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts of NASA arrive to the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 42/43 crewmember Samantha Cristoforetti climbs into the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft during a “fit check” dress rehearsal Nov. 12. Cristoforetti, Terry Virts of NASA and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time, from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA/Victor Ivanov
The Japanese airlock of the International Space Station, with the external door open and the extended slide table preparing to deploy the SpinSat satellite.
Credits: ESA/NASA
Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts of NASA and dignitaries at the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 23 November 2014.
With Samantha are Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. All three are part of the Station’s Expedition 42/43 crew.
On this mission, Samantha is flying as an ESA astronaut for Italy’s ASI space agency under a special agreement between ASI and NASA.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
With the statue of Vladimir Lenin nearby, the Expedition 42/43 backup and prime crewmembers pose for pictures Nov. 11 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia before the prime crew boarded a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. From left to right are backup crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and prime crewmembers Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, who will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from Baikonur in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, before a simulation inside the full-scale mockup of the Soyuz capsule, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, on 14 October 2014.
Samantha Cristoforetti is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the ISS, scheduled for November 2014 and as part of Expedition 42/43.
Credit:ESA–S. Corvaja
Expedition 42/43 prime crew member ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti answers a question a during the press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 22 November, 2014.
The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled on 23 November at 21:01 GMT (22:01 CET).
Samantha was assigned to the Futura mission more than two years ago and has travelled the world training on all the elements of the most complex machine ever built: the International Space Station. She learnt how to control the Station’s robotic arms, how to handle any emergency and how to perform all the scientific experiments she will run for the scientists on Earth.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International Space Station at 10:20 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.
Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti are returning after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2015