Zvezda, DOS-8, also known as the Zvezda Service Module, is a component of the International Space Station (ISS). It was the third module launched to the station, and provides all of the station’s life support systems, some of which are supplemented in the USOS, as well as living quarters for two crew members. It is […]
Archives: July, 2014
July 12. Zvezda heads into orbit aboard a Proton rocket in the year 2000 (photo)
Earth Paints – the Bahamas (photo)
Clouds Hairstyle. Exuma Island & Long Island
Experiment Kulonovskiy Kristall (photo)
Experiment Kulonovskiy Kristall (начался с МКС-39) (about): Study of dynamic and structural characteristics of the coulomb systems formed by the charged dispersed diamagnetic macroparticles in the magnetic trap; investigation of the following processes onboard the ISS RS: the condensed dust media – coulomb crystals and coulomb liquids formation by the charged macroparticles.
Paints of Africa – Gweni-Fada Crater, Chad (photo)
African Crescent in the Northwest of Chad.
Glacier’s Comb near Labuche Kang (photo)
Glaciers near Labuche Kang. Tibet, about border with Nepal. Katmandu Area.
Lake Issyk Kul (photo)
Issyk Kul is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the tenth largest lake in the world by volume and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea. Although it is surrounded by snow-capped peaks, it never freezes.
Durrat Al Bahrain (photo)
Durrat Al Bahrain is the largest artificial island in Bahrain after the Amwaj Islands. The US$6 billion project will consist of a series of 15 large artificial islands, covering an area of over 20,000,000 m2 (220,000,000 sq ft) once completed in mid-2015. It will comprise six atolls, five fish-shaped islands and two crescent-shaped islands.
Landing Training (photo)
On June 27 we had a training of descent to Earth. Training is successful, skills are not lost!
Super Typhoon Neoguri (photo)
Powerful Typhoon Neoguri pounded Japan’s Okinawa islands on Tuesday local time (July 8, 2014) In the Typhoon Center
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