File:ISS-42 New Zealand in Sunglint, large resolution.jpg
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English: In this panorama taken from the International Space Station (ISS), the Sun’s glint point highlights the details of Cook Strait, between New Zealand’s North and South Islands. Astronauts looking west towards the setting Sun were able to see this high-contrast detail even though the center of the glint point was 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) away from the ISS.
The sunglint shows Wellington Bay—where the capital city is located—opening onto Cook Strait. Banks Peninsula, near the city of Christchurch, is the prominent cape whose characteristic shape is well known to ISS crews. Clouds are approaching from the top left (west) in the image. New Zealand is seldom photographed from orbit because it is one of the cloudier parts of planet, and because crew sleep periods often occur when the ISS passes over the area.Deutsch: In diesem Panorama, das von der Internationalen Raumstation (ISS) aus aufgenommen wurde, hebt das Glitzern der gespiegelten Sonnenstrahlen die Details der Cook Strait, zwischen Neuseelands Nordinsel und Südinsel. Die Astronauten konnten bei ihrem Blick gegen die untergehende Sonne diese hochkontrastierenden Details erkennen, obwohl das Zentrum des Glitzern 1000 Kilometer entfernt war von der ISS.
Das Glitzern der Sonne fällt in die Wellington Bay — dort liegt die Hauptstadt des Landes —, die sich in die Cook Strait öffnet. Banks Peninsula, in der Nähe der Stadt Christchurch, ist das herausragende Kap, dessen charakteristische Form den Crews der ISS nicht unbekannt ist. Wolken nähern sich im Bild von oben links (Westen). Neuseeland wird selten aus dem Orbbit photographiert, weil diese Gegend zu den häufig bewölkten Gebieten der Erde gehört und weil die Schlafperioden der Crew häufig in die Zeit fallen, in der die ISS dieses Gebiet überquert. |
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| Source | http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85332&src=eorss-iotd |
| Author | Astronaut photograph ISS042-E-178671 by unspecified member of the Expedition 42 crew. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University, Jacobs Contract, at NASA-JSC. |
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