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India by Night and Day

Two photos, taken 48 years apart, provide contrasting views of southern Asia.


Astronaut photograph S66-54677 was acquired on September 14, 1966, using a 70 mm lens on a modified Hasselblad film camera. Astronaut photograph ISS042-E-135100 was acquired on January 12, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 28 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 42 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Texas State University at NASA-JSC.

Published January 26, 2015
Data acquired January 12, 2015

Sources:
Gemini > 70mm Camera
ISS > Digital Camera
Collections:
Astronaut Photography
Earth at Night