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| ISS011-E-12415 (31 August 2005) --- Aurora Borealis and lights
in Finland, Russia, Estonia and Latvia are featured in this digital still
picture taken by the Expedition 11 crew aboard the International Space Station.
If it were daylight parts of the Eastern Baltic Sea would be visible. The
station was over a point on Earth located at 50.6 degrees north latitude
and 15.1 degees east longitude at the time. The cluster of stars to the
lower right of the thin crescent Moon is the Praesepe or Beehive Cluster
in Cancer. Just to the right of that is the planet Saturn. |
